Blog
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...
December 3, 2019
PAN Europe recalls that three mission letters - issued by Ursula von der Leyen to Agriculture, Health and Environment (then) Commissioners-delegate - pointed to reducing pesticide dependency and the p...
October 29, 2019
On the 25th of October, PAN Europe was invited by French Senator Joël Labbé and Noé Association to participate in a colloquium on the 2014 Labbé Law, which prohibits the use of pesticides by municipal...
October 17, 2019
Since the 2018 ban on neonicotinoids, many citizens might think that bees are now fully protected from toxic pesticides in the EU. Unfortunately, this is not the case. That is why NGOs are asking Memb...
September 2, 2019
On June 12th, at Sala Aranciera of the Orto Botanico in Rome, a number of Italian mayors told the stories of local communities that have taken action to protect the health of citizens and the environm...