Letters

Reaction to the IPM compromise chapter of the Swedish Council presidency on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation (SUR)

June 13, 2023

Dear Ministers, We write to you to express our grave concerns regarding the leaked IPM compromise chapter of the Swedish Council presidency on the Sustainable use of Pesticides Regulation (SUR).&...

No backward step in pesticide regulation

June 13, 2023

Dear Member of the European Parliament, In these times of increasing attacks on the regulation proposal for the sustainable use of pesticides (SUR), we - the 83 undersigned civil society organisa...

10 demands to urgently address shortcomings and flaws in the EU pesticide authorisation system

June 13, 2023

Dear Commissioner Kyriakides, We, the 83 undersigned civil society organisations, are writing to you to ask you to respond urgently to the unfulfilled requests from the European Parliament to imp...

Yes to the Green Deal. No to the suspension of the CAP's environmental requirements

June 12, 2023

Dear President of the European Commission Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, We, the below-mentioned organisations, are writing to you to ask to ensure a proper implementation of the Green Deal objectives...

Reaction to EPP’s withdrawal from the democratic negotiation process of the Nature Restoration Law: a People’s Party?

June 6, 2023

Dear members of the European People’s Party, We write to you to express our deepest concerns regarding your announcement to withdraw from the negotiations on the planned Nature Restoration Law (N...

Publication of the EC proposal for the Soil Health Law to set the EU on an effective pathway towards healthy soils by 2050

May 30, 2023

Dear Executive Vice-President, dear Commissioner, We, the signatories of this letter from a broad range of agricultural and environmental organisations and scientific institutions, are writing to...

Call for a strong pesticide regulation and nature restoration law to protect people’s health, the environment and long-term food security

May 22, 2023

Dear members of the European Parliament's AGRI Committee, Dear members of the European Parliament’s ENVI Committee, We write to you to express our deepest concerns regarding the current atte...

Request for a meeting on New Genomic Techniques: Time to shift to evidence-based decision making for sustainable food systems and nature

May 16, 2023

Dear Executive Vice-President, As Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal we, the undersigned 300+ organisations, call on you to intervene and prevent the far-reaching deregulation o...

Negative effects on biodiversity not taken into account (Part 2)

May 9, 2023

Dear Mr. Url, On March 8, 2023 we wrote a letter to you asking to take into account indirect effects of pesticides. On May2, 2023 we received your reply that to our feeling fails to address our c...

Misleading information on the alternatives for candidates for substitution

May 3, 2023

Dear Ms. Health Commissioner Kyriakides, We are writing to you concerning the issue of substitution of the most dangerous pesticides authorised in the EU, the candidates of substitution (Cf...

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