Briefings

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...

PAN Europe’s comments to the legislative proposal aiming at establishing Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output (SAIO)

May 7, 2021

The European Commission has published a proposal for a regulation (COM(2021) 37 final) regarding European statistic for agricultural products and inputs (SAIO). This proposal aims at replacing inter a...

PAN Europe contribution to the EU feedback mechanism on Statistics on Pesticides – updated list of active substances

May 7, 2021

The European Commission has published a proposal for amending Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 concerning statistics on pesticides. All that is being proposed is an upgrading of the list of active substan...

Position paper: PAN Europe’s position on the evaluation of the EU agricultural promotion policy

March 9, 2021

Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN) Europe welcomes the opportunity to comment on the inception Impact Assessments of the EU’s agricultural promotion policy (1), providing our views on the Commissio...

Which indicators to best measure the EU objective of pesticide use and risk reductions

February 12, 2021

As part of the European Green Deal’s strategies (Farm to Fork and Biodiversity), the European Commission is proposing to reduce pesticide risk and use by 50% by 2030. While PAN Europe fully backs the ...

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