Briefings
February 2, 2018
Following a request by the European Commission, the European Agencies -European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), European Chemical Agency (ECHA)- with the assistance of Commission’s Joint Research Centre...
January 26, 2018
Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG Sante) from the European Commission has published in 2017 an Overview report on audits carried out in EU Member States to evaluate the authorisation ...
November 6, 2017
EU decision makers must act now and vote no to new licence Berlin/Amsterdam, 4 November 2017 – Today over 200 people formed a human banner at the Tempelhofer field in Berlin to demand t...
October 30, 2017
Commission Health service DG SANTE proposes a 5-year renewal for the herbicide Glyphosate (vote on November 9), which contradicts the vote in the European Parliament for a phase out of Glyphosate. DG ...
October 23, 2017
We call on the European Commission to withdraw the current implementing Regulation proposal on renewing the authorisation of the active substance glyphosate in the European Union for 10 years (from 16...
September 15, 2017
On the 4th of July 2017, at the Standing Committee of Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SC PAFF) Member States voted in favour of the European Commission’s proposal of scientific criteria to identify en...
July 19, 2017
Today, as regulators met at the EU Commission headquarters to discuss the future of Glyphosate – the most used, and possibly most controversial, herbicide active substance in the world – citizens and ...
July 4, 2017
This reflection paper is in twelve points shortly questionning the CAP payments relating to pesticide issues. So far there is only a very limited mandatory instrument: pesticide free Ecological Focus ...
March 10, 2017
Technically, pesticides are not needed at all to produce food; organic production is a realistic alternative.Farmers producing organic food or food with far less pes...
February 13, 2017
Commission’s legal act (fourth update) on the draft EDC (Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals) criteria proposal presented on 21th of December Standing Committee on Plans, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF), ...