Briefings
May 1, 2013
Whoever skilled agronomist you speak to will tell you that crop rotation (1) is one of the most important agricultural practices, existing for thousands of years, and often used in organic farming but...
March 1, 2013
While PAN Europe recognises that it was a good media stunt to release the Humboldt “scientific study” on neonicotinoids the day before EFSA published its highly critical opinion on 3 neonicotinoides i...
January 1, 2013
In the European Innovation Partnership on Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability the idea is to “achieve more from less”. As already explained in PAN Europe’s position paper on “Innovation and R...
December 1, 2012
The key focus in the entire EU debate on innovation and resource efficiency, aiming at combining the concepts of productivity and sustainability under the official slogan ‘achieve more from less’ shou...
March 1, 2010
Pesticides are a major factor affecting biological diversity, along with habitat loss and climate change. They can have toxic effects in the short term in directly exposed organisms, or long-term effe...
December 1, 2008
PAN Europe welcomes Commission proposal to amend Directive 2006/42/EC and to include environmental protection requirements for pesticide application machinery. This European Directive is also useful f...
June 1, 2008
On 12 May the UK Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) published an assessment of the Commission’s proposals for ‘cut off’ criteria and substitution provisions, and of the amendments proposed by Parliam...
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...