Briefings

PAN Europe’s Position Paper on the EU proposal for a Regulation on Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products

September 16, 2022

On 22 June 2022, the European Commission published its proposal for a Regulation on Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products (SUR1 ) and repeal the current EU Directive (128/2009/EC) on the Sustai...

Urgent need for precise public data on the use of pesticides across Europe

May 30, 2022

More than 60 organisations, including Eureau, EFFAT and SumOfUS express their deep concerns about the direction the negotiations within Trilogues are taking on the reform of the agricul...

Application of EU health and environmental standards to imported agricultural and agri-food products: Contribution to the call for evidence

March 29, 2022

The European Commission is consulting stakeholders on the rationale and legal feasibility of applying EU health and environmental standards (including animal welfare standards and processes and produc...

Updated version: Position paper on the development of a risk assessment of pesticides on bumblebees and solitary bees

March 24, 2022

While the collapse of biodiversity is not questionable anymore and, particularly, that of insects, the pace of improving the situation at the pesticide regulatory level is extremely slow. The revision...

Position paper on the revision of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive

March 10, 2022

The European Commission will present a proposal for a new Pesticide Reduction Regulation on 23 March 2022. That will be the start of a discussion with the European Parliament and the member states. It...

Pesticide checklist on National Strategic Plans of the Common Agricultural Policy

March 4, 2022

The European Union has agreed to reform EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and, as part of that, Member States (MS) need to prepare National Strategic Plans (NSP) by end of 2021. The European Commi...

Contribution to the EU feedback mechanism on Sustainable Food Systems

December 7, 2021

The European Commission has published an Inception Impact Assessment to inform citizens and stakeholders about the Commission's plans to move EU towards development of Sustainable Food Systems aiming ...

PAN Europe and PAN International call on WHO and OECD to reject and condemn EFSA's methodology to assess cocktail effects of pesticides

November 30, 2021

Today, PAN Europe and PAN International are calling on the WHO and the OECD, via a letter, to reject and condemn EFSA's methodology to assess cocktail effects of pesticides. Salomé Roynel, Campaigner ...

PAN Europe’s position on the technical guidance on negligible exposure

November 2, 2021

Points 3.6.3 to 3.6.5 of Annex II of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 provide that active substances, safeners or synergists, classified on the basis of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as carcinogen category...

How to best address cocktails effects in the Pesticide legislation? Towards the implementation of a Mixture Assessment Factor (MAF): PAN Europe’s Position Paper

October 20, 2021

The protection of EU citizens from pesticide cocktail effects, a legal and political commitment of the EU. EU citizens and the environment are continuously exposed to many different combinations of ch...

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