Briefings
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), ...
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Thank you for your invitation to comment on the draft guidance document on negligible exposure currently under development by DG SANTE, pesticide unit 3.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...