Briefings
September 30, 2025
In July 2025, the Commission proposed the long-term budget (multi-annual financial framework (MMF)) for 2028–2034, which includes the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). [1] Rather than effectively supp...
September 23, 2025
PAN Europe welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the EFSA’s Draft statement on consumer health-based guidance values on trifluoroacetic acid.Our organisation is closely following the develop...
September 10, 2025
PAN Europe welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the call for evidence for simplification of administrative burden in environmental legislation.PAN Europe is a science-based organisation composed ...
July 29, 2025
PAN Europe welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the ECHA’s CLH report on the new hazard classes of TFA.Our organisation is closely following the developments related to TFA, as it is a comm...
July 28, 2025
Trifluoroacetid Acid (TFA) is an omnipresent pollutant in water. This small PFAS molecule is a final breakdown product of PFAS pesticides, some F-gases and other chemicals containing a ...
March 4, 2025
PAN Europe welcomes the European Commission’s initiative for a European Water Resilience Strategy (EWRS), recognising water’s place at the centre of EU policy and urging actions to address water chall...
February 12, 2025
The EU pesticide regulation does not allow substances that are proven to be carcinogens, reprotoxic substances, and endocrine disruptors. However, the regulation provides a theoretical exception ...
January 14, 2025
The EU Vision for Agriculture and Food should prioritise policy action to ambitiously reduce pesticides. Reducing pesticide use and risk is a key objective of the Green Deal. Reducing pesticide use an...
December 12, 2024
The Flemish government approved a new pesticide plan last week, but it falls fundamentally short. While pesticides are harmful to biodiversity and public health, it lacks effective measures. The preca...
December 3, 2024
What do mineral waters and a ‘forever chemical’ with a difficult-to-pronounce name like trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) have in common? Nothing, at least in an ideal world. Unfortunately, reality paints a ...