Letters
December 8, 2022
Dear Ms Kyriakides, New research by Gregor Kasprian et al.1 reveals that consumption of alcohol even in low to moderate amounts during pregnancy can change the baby’s brain structure and delay br...
December 1, 2022
Exports of banned hazardous chemicals: time to put an end to double standards1. Hazardous chemicals, banned at a domestic level in order to protect human health and the environment, are currently prod...
November 11, 2022
Dear Ms. Kyriakides, New research of Lasee et al.1 demonstrates the presence of fluorinated substances in pesticide formulations. After having previously found concentrations of a variety of PFAS...
November 10, 2022
Dear Members of the Appeal Committee, On the 14th of October, ScoPAFF did not give a green light to the one-year prolongation of Glyphosate. However, the EU Commission proposed its prolongation (...
November 10, 2022
We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn the attacks to weaken the ambition of the proposal for a Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation (SUR) and to delay its adoption. Th...
November 3, 2022
On behalf of 16 organisations across Europe including environmental and health associations, the organisers of the successful European Citizens’ Initiative “Save Bees and Farmers”, trade unions repres...
September 27, 2022
Dear President von der Leyen, We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are writing to throw our full support behind this Commission’s core commitment to laying the foundations of an...
August 15, 2022
After a high-level meeting last week, we, representatives of civil society & Indigenous Peoples organizations, urgently call on the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to end its existing a...
July 27, 2022
Dear Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen, (Cc. Vice-President Timmermans), The EU being an important member of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), we are writing to ...
July 11, 2022
Dear Commissioner Kyriakides, On 14/15 July, during the EU Standing committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF), the Commission will propose Member States to endorse an amended review repo...