Letters

Uphold your promise to end the export of EU-banned pesticides

June 24, 2025

Dear Commission President von der Leyen,We, the undersigned civil society organisations, write to you to share the attached statement signed by 600 civil society organisations, trade unions, and farme...

Call for a swift ban on four known endocrine-disrupting pesticides

June 23, 2025

Dear Ms. Gallina,With this letter, PAN Europe urges the European Commission to promptly propose the non-renewal of four pesticide active substances identified as endocrine disruptors by the European F...

Every life counts: European Union to stand as a global leader on the protection of human health and the environment from hazardous pesticides

June 16, 2025

Dear Chair of the Environment Council, Dear Environment Minister,We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are writing to express our deep concerns about the European Commission backtracking on...

Adoption of the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks on PFAS and TFA

May 22, 2025

Dear Commissioner, Dear Chair of the Environment Council, Dear Rapporteur,We, the undersigned civil society organisations working together to phase out the use of harmful pesticides in agriculture, ar...

Gezondheidsorganisaties, mutualiteiten en milieu- en natuurorganisaties roepen minister Vandenbroucke op om zijn stem te laten horen bij beslissingen over pesticiden

May 21, 2025

Pesticiden hebben een grote gezondheidsimpact. Het is daarom essentieel dat minister Vandenbroucke (Volksgezondheid) mee beslist over pesticiden. Volgens de Belgische wet heeft de minister van Volksge...

Les organisations de santé, les mutuelles et les organisations environnementales et de protection de la nature demandent au ministre Vandenbroucke de faire entendre sa voix dans les décisions sur les pesticides, comme il en a la prérogative

May 21, 2025

Les pesticides ont un impact majeur sur la santé. Il est donc essentiel que le ministre fédéral Frank Vandenbroucke (Santé publique) participe aux décisions sur les pesticides. Selon la loi belge, le ...

Suspension of the EU-approval of acetamiprid, following recent scientific publications on developmental neurotoxicity of acetamiprid

May 20, 2025

Dear Mrs. Gallina, In June 2023, PAN Europe sent a letter to DG Sante, asking to take action to better protect our children and the unborn, against the neurotoxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides...

EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF); 14-15 May - position of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe

May 8, 2025

Dear Members of the SCoPAFF committee,On May 14th and 15th, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss and potentially adopt opinions on several European...

Message from the Bottle - TFA in wine

April 25, 2025

Dear Guilhem de Seze,I am writing as a follow-up to the exchange we started last year on PFAS pesticides (ref. letter from 25th July 2024) to share with you our latest report, ‘Message from the Bottle...

Call for a ban of the PFAS active substance flutolanil and the withdrawal of national authorisations of PFAS pesticides

April 25, 2025

Dear members of the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,I am writing on behalf PAN Europe to share with you our latest report, Message from the bottle, revealing a dramatic rise in...

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