Briefings
March 29, 2019
We urge AGRI Members to support alternative Compromise Amendment (CA) 10 on Annex III, containing the conditionality rules – and to firmly reject the rapporteur’s CA. The rapporteur’s CA on Annex...
March 5, 2019
Against the backdrop of several shortcomings in the implementation and application of the WFD, PAN Europe and PAN Germany urge Member States as well as the European Commission to put in place a more c...
December 12, 2018
The European Commission has published a proposal for a set of harmonised risk indicators to measure pesticide use in EU Member States as required by the EU Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticid...
October 18, 2018
In 2017, the European Commission, the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, and Directorate F for Health and Food Audit Analyses (HFAA), undertook six fact-finding missions to evaluate the i...
October 15, 2018
This position paper responds to the legislative proposals1 on the CAP strategic plans released by the European Commission on 1st June 2018, with a focus on pesticide use, while also proposing fundamen...
October 7, 2018
The ‘Community Strategy for Endocrine Disruptors (EDs)” adopted in 1999 was set up to be in line with the precautionary principle, which aims at ensuring a higher level of environmental protection thr...
September 27, 2018
In May 2017, the French Senate approved an EU resolution1 calling on the European Union (EU) to ban all non-agricultural use of pesticides. The resolution also asked the EU to examine the extent to wh...
September 24, 2018
Council, Commission and the EU Parliament decided in 2005 (Regulation 396/2005) to protect the public against the negative health effects of mixtures of toxic pesticides in food. Around 30% of fruit a...
September 17, 2018
A request from the Pesticide Action Network to DG SANTE for documents on endocrine disruptors policy in 2016 was refused in 2017 because the policy was still “ongoing” and disclosure would harm the de...
July 18, 2018
Regulation 1107/2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, requires that a substance shall only be approved if it meets certain approval criteria (Article 4) and apply the...