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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...
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...