Letters

New Report: Manufacturing Doubt: How Industry Downplays TFA’s Toxicity; Call for a TFA assessment independent from industry influence and a ban on PFAS pesticides

October 2, 2025

Dear Ms Bury,I am writing to draw your attention to the report Manufacturing Doubt: How Industry Downplays TFA’s Toxicity, published on Monday, 29 September by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe. T...

New Report: Manufacturing Doubt: How Industry Downplays TFA’s Toxicity; Call for a TFA assessment independent from industry influence and a ban on PFAS pesticides

October 2, 2025

Dear members of the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF),I am writing to draw your attention to the report Manufacturing Doubt: How Industry Downplays TFA’s Toxicity, publish...

Placing Healthy, Affordable Diets at the Core of EU Cardiovascular Health Policy

September 26, 2025

Dear Commissioner Várhelyi,We are writing to you ahead of World Heart Day on 29 September as a group of 20 organisations representing civil society, health associations, and medical professionals abou...

EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF); 1-3 October; position of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe

September 25, 2025

Dear Members of the SCoPAFF committee,On 1 to 3 October, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss and potentially adopt opinions on several European Co...

Electronic registration of pesticides data should be implemented without delay

September 24, 2025

Dear Minister,We are writing to you to express our high concerns regarding the European Commission proposal to amend Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/564, delaying the electronic registration of pest...

Urgent call to regulate TFA pollution in surface water and groundwater under the Water Framework Directive (WFD)

September 18, 2025

Dear Chair of the Environment Council, Dear Ministers for Environment, Dear Rapporteur,We, the 30 undersigned organisations committed to protecting human health and the environment from pollution, cal...

Urgent need for regulation of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in surface and groundwater

September 12, 2025

Dear Presidency, dear Permanent Representatives to the EU,PAN Europe is writing to you ahead of the interinstitutional technical meeting on 15 September 2025, to urge the incorporation of trifluoroace...

The EU weakens the rules that safeguard people and the environment

September 9, 2025

470 civil society, trade unions and public interest groups tell President von der Leyen, European Commissioners and EU Member States that our rights, planet, health and justice are not for sale.

PAN Europe’s feedback to European Commission’s Public Consultation “Export and import of hazardous chemicals”

August 10, 2025

PAN Europe would like to use this feedback opportunity to raise its concerns on the export of pesticides that have been banned for use in Europe because they can cause serious harm to human health, wi...

Written comments as follow-up to the 3rd EU Commission workshop on the development of a roadmap towards phasing out animal testing for chemical safety assessments

August 7, 2025

Following the discussions at the EU Commission workshop held at the EU Chemicals Agency in Helsinki on 16th and 17th June 2025, our organisations would like to provide the European Commission (EC) wit...

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