Blog
June 11, 2021
Since their approval in the EU in the 1990s, neonicotinoids have been widely criticized, and then proven to be harmful to bees and other pollinators, as well as to biodiversity as a whole. Several stu...
May 26, 2021
A few days ago, the Italian Council of State confirmed the possibility for the city of Conegliano, located in the Prosecco wine production area, to ban the use of synthetic pesticides on its terr...
March 26, 2021
Pesticides residues can be found in soils a long time after application, even in soils long converted to organic farming, as a recent and outstanding study pointed out(link is external). This research...
February 26, 2021
Following the derogations provided to farmers by the Belgian state for the use of neonicotinoids on sugar beets, PAN Europe, its member Nature & Progrès Belgique and a Belgian beekeeper have taken...
November 30, 2020
European pesticide legislation is currently failing to fully protect the health of European citizens and the environment - what has happened to what was widely promoted as one of the most stringent pe...
June 19, 2020
As civil society and beekeepers have applauded the 2018 ban on outdoor uses of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides(link is external), citizens might be led to believe that problems related to plummet...
May 7, 2020
Some EU Member States sometimes invoke a contradiction between EU regulations in order to justify lack of action to reduce pesticide use in their own jurisdictions. Then, one could wonder why Regulati...
March 24, 2020
Spring is upon us, a time when nature reawakens and pollinators finally come out again! The Covid-19 virus outbreak keeps us confined to our homes to help flatten the contagion curve for public safety...
January 17, 2020
During the Covid-19 lock-down, the French Agriculture Ministry authorizes the reduction of the pesticide bufferstrips near houses without public consultation.Spring is definitely back, which means a r...
December 19, 2019
Fourteen years have passed since the EU’s legal mandate to evaluate the impact of pesticide mixtures on human health, yet only in September this year did EFSA launch two pilot studies on food res...