Briefings
January 31, 2017
The European Commission is proposing to ban use of pesticides in productive areas of the so-called Ecological Focus Areas as part of the simplification and streamlining exercise ‘greening after one ye...
November 29, 2016
Commission’s second legal act on the draft EDC (Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals) criteria proposal discussed on 18th of November Standing Committee on Plans, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF), section p...
July 29, 2016
The Plant Protection Product Regulation 1107/2009 is a mutual agreement among the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission (COM), which recognises that pesticides “may inv...
April 22, 2016
Thank you for your invitation to comment on the draft guidance document on negligible exposure currently under development by DG SANTE, pesticide unit 3. After reading the document and participating i...
April 21, 2016
This reflection paper aims to investigate to what extent risk management tools offered within the current rural development policy can encourage farmers to combine economic and environmental sustainab...
May 1, 2015
We are worried about the health and environmental consequences of the outbreaks of Xylella fastidiosa in the Apulia region. The European Commission implementing decision to prevent the spread of Xylel...
October 1, 2014
The roadmap, as a regulatory tool, outlines the options considered by the COM to establish the criteria for the definition of EDCs in the context of ‘putting into force’ the Plant Protection Product R...
September 1, 2014
The polling question is: “Are you in favor of the implementation of the following amendment to the articles of the Township of Mals? The precautionary principle with the objective to protect public he...
March 28, 2014
Is it the mission of European food policy to realise maximum profit for big multinational companies or to provide healthy food and environment for people? If you look at the trade negotiations be...
March 1, 2014
The EU debate on sustainable production and consumption is often focused on taxation, labelling and environment information, green procurement, and recently more and more about waste. However, the ent...