Letters

A Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability - International Aspects

July 7, 2020

Dear Ms de Avila,We welcome the EU initiative to develop a Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and the commitment to promote the highest standards of environmental and health protection globally. As...

The Farm to Fork Strategy’s objectives on pesticides reduction cannot be achieved without a strong implementation of the substitution principle

June 14, 2020

Dear Commissioner Kyriakides, In 2019, the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) adopted a revised version of its standard PP 1/271 (3) Guidance on efficacy aspects of c...

Pesticide Action Network Europe’s reaction to COPA-COGECA attack on the overall pesticide use reduction targets in the biodiversity strategy

May 19, 2020

Dear Commissioner Timmermans, Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) would like to reply to what officially seems to be the farmers’ opposition to the reduction targets set out in Biodivers...

CSOs open letter on the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy: no further delays, keep April 2020 as publication date

April 15, 2020

Dear Executive Vice-President, Dear Commissioners, There has never been a more pertinent moment for the Commission to show that it is actively steering the EU towards a greener future, of wh...

European Green Deal needs to cut pesticides and switch to agroecology

March 31, 2020

We are writing to you as supporters of the European Citizens Initiative Save Bees and Farmers1 which has been already supported by over a quarter of a million EU citizens. The significant decline...

Policy Recommendations on Agroecological and Other Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Food Systems that Ensure Food Security and Nutrition

March 30, 2020

Dear Ambassador Emadi and the Committee on Food Security,On behalf of PAN International1 and the undersigned PAN national and regional organizations, I am pleased to contribute the following comments ...

The fight against COVID-19: let’s make public investments count for people

March 25, 2020

On 25th March 2020, 61 organisations including patients, consumers, healthcare professionals, trade unions and public interest organisations published a letter to express our views on the im...

Pesticide residues in agricultural imports must not compromise public health and the European Green Deal

March 10, 2020

Dear Commissioner Kyriakides, The European Commission is currently considering whether residues of certain pesticides that are banned for use in the EU should be allowed on imported products.

Fraud at GLP-certified laboratories

March 4, 2020

Dear Commissioner Kyriakides, We are writing to you on behalf of the coalition “Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation”, a European initiative consisting of over 140 European and internati...

Pesticide Action Network Europe’s reaction to the EU Green Deal

January 8, 2020

Dear Commissioner Timmermans, Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) would like to congratulate the incoming European Commission for the publication of the EU Green Deal (EGD). We welcome t...

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