Briefings
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...
February 1, 2008
CMR1,2&ED pesticides identified under the EU Coordinated food monitoring programme (2005).
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...