Pesticide Action Network Europe’s reaction to COPA-COGECA attack on the overall pesticide use reduction targets in the biodiversity strategy

Dear Commissioner Timmermans, 

Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) would like to reply to what officially seems to be the farmers’ opposition to the reduction targets set out in Biodiversity Strategy regarding chemical pesticide use (Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General of COPA-COGECA Secretary General, has published an opinion piece on 8 May 2020).