Briefings
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...
April 1, 2004
The pesticides authorization process has been harmonised at the European level through the Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the marke...
March 1, 2004
The Pesticide Action Network Europe welcomes the EU Commission's initiative to harmonise maximum residue limits (MRLs). PAN Europe welcomes a limit of 0.01 mg/kg being set for pesticides which are non...
January 1, 2004
This position paper deals with the role of public interest groups in the process of the evaluating and authorizing pesticides and with PAN Europe’s demands on the pesticide registration process in the...
November 1, 2002
The environmental, consumer, farmer and public health groups signed below welcome the initiative of the Commission in general, but believe that the Commission’s approach falls short of the legislative...