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Open letter on the independence and transparency of ECHA’s Risk Assessment Committee

March 8, 2017

Dear Mr Dancet, On 8 and 15 March, the European Chemicals Agency’s Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) will discuss the hazard classification of Europe’s most heavily used weedkiller, glyphosate. We ...

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Civil Society Statement on the Reform of European Agricultural Policies

March 7, 2017

We, the undersigned organisations, believe that the European food and farming system is broken: that it is working for the interests of a few to the detriment of the majority of people, farmers, and t...

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Open letter: MEPs must support the Commission to ban pesticides on EFAs

March 1, 2017

Dear Member of the European Parliament, We the above organisations encourage you to say ‘yes’ to the European Commission proposal to ban pesticide use in Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) and support...

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Call to implement Better Regulation principles in EU action on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

February 14, 2017

We are contacting you about Better Regulation issues in the EU’s policy on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. First, we would like to express our appreciation to the European Commission for its stated co...

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Criteria on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - EU Member States unprotected

November 14, 2016

Dear Minister, Ahead of the discussions on the criteria for endocrine disrupting chemicals in the Standing Committee of Food Animals Food and Feed on 18.11.2016 under the Pesticides 1107/2009 and...

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EU Health Commissioner chooses to protect the industry profit rather than the Health of Europeans and the environment

June 30, 2016

The Health Directory for the European Commission has failed to fulfil its duty to produce scientific criteria for endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that will protect the health of humans, animals ...

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Phase out of the pesticide glyphosate

June 30, 2016

Dear Commission President Juncker, Dear Health Commissioner Andriukaitis, Cc Ambassador,  We – the thirty-one signatories of European environmental, health, trade union, consumer protec...

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Pan International letter to the JMPR for the assessment of glyphosate

May 6, 2016

Dear experts of the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues, We are writing to you on the behalf of Pesticide Action Network International, a global network of civil society organisations tha...

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Glyphosate – Your request for publication of confidential industry studies

April 14, 2016

Dear Commissioner Andriukaitis, We refer to your letter of 4 April 2016 to Richard P. Garnett of Monsanto Europe, Chairman of the Glyphosate Task Force, an industry consortium pressing for contin...

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European NGOs call on the MEPs to support the plenary voting against glyphosate re-approval

April 14, 2016

Dear Member of the European Parliament, On April 13th, you will vote on the Environment Committee’s objection to the Commission’s proposal to renew the EU license for glyphosate, the active ingre...

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