Letters
January 31, 2023
Dear Commissioner, In a preliminary ruling (case C-162/21) recently published, the Court of Justice of the EU has clarified a certain number of boundaries, with regards to the use of article 53 o...
January 30, 2023
Monsieur le Ministre Clarinval, Le 19 janvier[1] dernier, la Cour de Justice de l’Union européenne (CJUE) a rendu un arrêt confirmant l’illégalité des dérogations octroyées par la Belgique d...
January 13, 2023
Dear Mr Dermine, Thank you for the letter of 14 December 2022, submitted on behalf of 28 environmental and health related non-governmental organisations, in which you call for an immediate ban of...
December 14, 2022
Dear Commissioner Kyriakides, We, the undersigned 28 environmental and health groups, urge you to immediately ban glyphosate from the European market on the basis of the overwhelming amount...
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...