Briefings
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...
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 ...