Briefings
December 1, 2013
In May 2013, the European Commission published a package of measures to strengthen the enforcement of health and safety standards for the whole agri-food chain and, as part of that, a proposal for the...
June 1, 2013
1. Pesticides Sales is a big business (www.gmwatch.org):The top 10 companies control 89% of the global agrochemical market. The world's six largest agrochemical manufacturers, who control nearly 75% o...
May 25, 2013
By the early 1990’s, it was established that the traditional toxicological testing protocols used to determine chemical safety had completely missed vast numbers of chemicals that penetrate the womb a...
May 1, 2013
Whoever skilled agronomist you speak to will tell you that crop rotation (1) is one of the most important agricultural practices, existing for thousands of years, and often used in organic farming but...
March 1, 2013
While PAN Europe recognises that it was a good media stunt to release the Humboldt “scientific study” on neonicotinoids the day before EFSA published its highly critical opinion on 3 neonicotinoides i...
January 1, 2013
In the European Innovation Partnership on Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability the idea is to “achieve more from less”. As already explained in PAN Europe’s position paper on “Innovation and R...
December 1, 2012
The key focus in the entire EU debate on innovation and resource efficiency, aiming at combining the concepts of productivity and sustainability under the official slogan ‘achieve more from less’ shou...
March 1, 2010
Pesticides are a major factor affecting biological diversity, along with habitat loss and climate change. They can have toxic effects in the short term in directly exposed organisms, or long-term effe...
December 1, 2008
PAN Europe welcomes Commission proposal to amend Directive 2006/42/EC and to include environmental protection requirements for pesticide application machinery. This European Directive is also useful f...
June 1, 2008
On 12 May the UK Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) published an assessment of the Commission’s proposals for ‘cut off’ criteria and substitution provisions, and of the amendments proposed by Parliam...