It seems to have worked without many problems in France, they had a ban in 2018: https://cen.acs.org/environment/pesticides/France-bans-uses-neonicotinoid-pest

It seems to have worked without many problems in France, they had a ban in 2018: https://cen.acs.org/environment/pesticides/France-bans-uses-neonicotinoid-pesticides/96/i36 https://cen.acs.org/environment/pesticides/France-bans-uses-... but there has been a recent exception made for the sugar beet crop: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-sees-no-easy-fix-sugar-beet-disease-without-neonicotinoids-2021-06-02/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-sees-no-easy-fix...