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PAN-Europe opinion on the Humboldt report on “The value of Neonicotinoids seed treatment in the European Union”

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...

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How NGOs can help farmers to get a higher price for their products

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...

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Innovation and resource efficiency – the way forward is reducing chemical input dependency

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...

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Pesticides and the loss of biodiversity

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...

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PAN Europe position paper on Commission proposal for a Directive on machinery for pesticide application (2008/0172-COD)

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...

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Analysis of UK Pesticides Safety Directorate report on the proposed cut off criteria and substitution provisions

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...

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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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