The advice of the UK Expert Committee on Pesticides on recent applications for emergency authorisation of the use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam on oilseed rape was published online at: www.pesticides.gov.uk/guidance/industries/pesticides/advisory-groups/acp/ACP-News/ECP-Letters-and-Communications. The advice of Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser will also be published online in the next few days. Copies will be placed in the House of Commons Library.