Letters

Letter by EU Commissioner Stella Kyriakides re. NGOs letter on glyphosate

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...

Take the side of European people and ban glyphosate

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...

New research shows a safe toxin dose for the unborn does not exist

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...

Joint Statement: NGOs AND Trade Unions demand the end of EU’s export of banned pesticides and other hazardous chemicals

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...

Insecticides contaminated with PFAS

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...

Calling upon Member States to oppose the European Commission’s proposal extension of the approval period of the active substance glyphosate

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 (...

29 NGOs, the European organic movement, beekeepers and IBMA (biocontrol manufacturers) call on the Parliament and the Council to support the Commission’s proposal on the SUR despite attacks to weaken it and delay its adoption

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...

Joint contribution to the public consultation of the European Commission entitled “Plant protection products - records to be kept by professional users”

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...

Joint open letter on the need to include the framework on Sustainable Food Systems in the EC work programme for 2023

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...

Joint Statement: Civil society & IPs to FAO: End indefinite agreement, ensure accountability

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...

Letters

Follow us