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August 11, 2022
The EU has presented a proposal for a new regulation on pesticide reduction. This law will regulate how we deal with pesticides for many years to come and can be a real game changer. However, the curr...
June 2, 2022
Following a PAN Europe letter highlighting recent scientific findings on the alarming risk posed by neonicotinoid insecticides to children’s brain development, the EU Commission said no action would b...
May 30, 2022
The city of Florence has signed the Pledge in which it bans pesticides in public places. This change will bring many benefits, such as an increase in life quality, the elimination of da...
May 20, 2022
On World Bee Day, it is compelling to highlight that the level of protection of bees against pesticides remains far from optimal in the EU. While bee-toxic sulfoxaflor insecticide was banned earlier t...
May 9, 2022
Pesticides such as glyphosate could have a role in heart rhythm disorders (i.e. atrial fibrillation). According to scholars, there are such clear indications of this that the Amsterdam professor Bianc...
April 6, 2022
On 24 February 2022, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published its latest annual report on pesticide residues in food for the year 2020[1]. Data show that half of the fruit and vegetables on...
March 17, 2022
Today, an important hearing has taken place in the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg. PAN Europe asked the Court to clarify the rules for the provision of derogations for EU-banned pesticides. ...
March 15, 2022
On 15 March 2022, Pesticide Action Network Europe joined a protest at the Forum for the Future of Agriculture(link is external) in Brussels. This lobby event is organized by Syngenta and other a...
February 24, 2022
The European Commission has promised to restrict the use of pesticides. This is about time, for numerous researches show the damage to our health and the devastating effect on nature, biodiversity and...
June 25, 2021
Today, DG Sante has convened stakeholders in a meeting where it presented its proposal for carrying out an impact assessment of the revision of the so-called Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (S...