Letters

Prohibiting the export of banned pesticides and the import of food produced with these chemicals

November 5, 2020

Dear First Executive Vice President,Dear Commissioners, We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are writing to ask you to prohibit not only the export of hazardous pesticides that are ba...

Withdrawal of the Commission proposal for the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy

November 2, 2020

Dear Commission President Von der Leyen,We are writing to you to call on the European Commission to withdraw1 its proposal on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to safeguard your Commission...

Phase out of soil fumigants

October 16, 2020

Dear Ms. Kyriakides, On the agenda of the next pesticide Standing Committee (ScoPAFF) meeting is again the soil fumigants 1,3-dichloropropene and chloropicrin are discussed. Apart from the discus...

Open letter to the President of the European Commission, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament calling for full alignment of the reformed CAP with the European Green Deal

September 30, 2020

Dear Ms von der Leyen,We, organisations from the food, farming, development, climate, environmental, and public health movements across the EU, write to express our strong alarm at the current failure...

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 ...

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