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Message in a Bottle

April 1, 2008

In the first investigation of its kind, PAN Europe, together with Greenpeace Germany, Mouvement pour le Droit et le Respect des Générations Futures (MDRGF) and Global 2000, purchased 40 bottles of win...

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List of substances potentially affected by the Commission's proposed approvals criteria (Annex II, COM(2006)388)

February 1, 2008

CMR1,2&ED pesticides identified under the EU Coordinated food monitoring programme (2005).

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Analysis of CMR and Endocrine Disruptors in the EU Food Chain

February 1, 2008

The Commission’s proposal to amalgamate Member States into three multi-national authorisation zones (Map 1) has no actual basis in terms of agricultural, plant health, and environmental (including cli...

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Hazardous Pesticides in the European Parliament

October 1, 2007

On 13 July 2007, Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) purchased eight fruit items from the GB Express supermarket in the European Parliament building, Brussels. These food samples, which ...

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Cut Back on Pesticides for Healthier Lives

February 1, 2007

The current European Union Directive for authorising pesticides (Directive 91/414/EEC for the placing of plant protection products in the EU market) is totally inadequate to prevent the increasing hea...

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WHO to reverse the irresponsible promotion of the toxic pesticide DDT, and actively seek and promote malaria control solutions targeting the real causes of malaria

October 10, 2006

Pesticide Action Network International—a global coalition of more than six hundred non-governmental organizations from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and North America...

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PAN position regarding the EC Management Strategy for the Phase-out of Critical Use Exemptions of Methyl Bromide

May 9, 2006

1. The EC strategy was produced as a result of a requirement of Montreal Protocol (MP) Decision Ex.I/4 which requires all countries that request CUEs to submit a management strategy for the phase-out ...

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Summary of external costs of pesticide use

December 1, 2005

Less input-intensive farming is at least as economically viable as high input/high pesticide-intensive farming. See for example, the studies by Mouron et all. (2005) and Reganold et all. (2001). Even ...

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Comments on the October 2004 Extended Impact Assessment

February 1, 2005

The long awaited Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides, including the revision of the authorisation Directive 91/414/EEC, is a key instrument in order to reduce the increasingly docum...

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PAN Europe position on aerial spraying

June 1, 2004

On 31 March 2004, the European Commission held a stakeholder meeting, (attended by Catherine Wattiez and David Buffin of PAN Europe) on Aerial Spraying, in the context of its elaboration of the Themat...

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