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REFIT of the Pesticide (EC 1107/2009) & Maximum Residue Limits in food (EC 396/2005) Regulations: PAN Europe's observations
SUD implementation still lamentably inadequate: how linking it to the CAP could help

July 23, 2019

The European Commission’s Progress Report on the implementation plan to increase the availability of low-risk plant protection products and accelerate implementation of integrated pest management in M...

Pesticide Action Week 2019- together for a pesticide free future!
Pesticide Action Week 2019- together for a pesticide free future!

June 20, 2019

Pesticide Action Week is a grassroots initiative orchestrated by Générations Futures, Pan Europe member organisation in France, taking place during the first ten days of every spring (20th-30th o...

Marching for a pesticide-free Italy
Marching for a pesticide-free Italy

June 19, 2019

On Sunday 19th of May, despite adverse weather conditions, hundreds of people across the Italian regions of Trentino, Veneto and Emilia Romagna joined peaceful protests in what now, in its third year ...

New developments on glyphosate
New developments on glyphosate

June 18, 2019

While soon in Europe we will be discussing again the renewal of the glyphosate, on the other side of the Atlantic, the second Roundup cancer trial in San Fransisco’s Federal court concluded that Monsa...

Bees continuously threatened
Bees continuously threatened

May 5, 2019

Bees are still under threat despite the EU ban on three highly bee-toxic neonicotinoids. A loophole in the Pesticides Regulation (1) continues unlawfully allowing ‘emergency authorisations’ through wh...

NGOs call on EU regulators to protect Europeans from endocrine disruptors
NGOs call on EU regulators to protect Europeans from endocrine disruptors

April 2, 2019

As PAN Europe, we’re very disappointed with the lack of commitment in the recent Commission’s communication “Towards a comprehensive European Union framework on endocrine disruptors(link is exter...

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EU Member States continue putting bees at risk

December 4, 2018

Inspired by UN’s World Charter for Nature, the precautionary principle represents one of the cornerstones of EU’s environmental legislation[1]. Technically speaking, this concept puts safety ahead of ...

Why are our EU regulators so reluctant to protect us from hormone disruptors?
Why are our EU regulators so reluctant to protect us from hormone disruptors?

December 3, 2018

Europeans were once again disappointed this month from the lack of commitment of European policy makers to phase out the use of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), set clear targets and increase th...

Prosecco: A story of not a sparkling wine, but a local resistance against pesticides
Prosecco: A story of not a sparkling wine, but a local resistance against pesticides

December 3, 2018

Conegliano is a « a miracle of nature in the Veneto region of Italy located in the famous Prosecco area : both for the wine it produces, and for the splendid hilly countryside», as described in g...

Sugar Beet Industry vs Bees
Sugar Beet Industry vs Bees: High time for the EU to support low input, bee-friendly and healthy productions

September 24, 2018

PAN Europe's Reaction to International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE)(link is external)The European Commission and 76% of EU Member States have decided to ban 3 highly bee-toxic ne...

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