Letters
October 5, 2017
Dear Mr President, First of all, we congratulate you for having taken the initiative to organize a high-level conference starting today in Tallin on “Soil for sustainable food production and ecos...
September 26, 2017
Dear Commissioner, We have recently read in the news1 that you support a ten years re-authorisation of glyphosate, inter alia arguing that ‘It is too important for agriculture - and for urban dwe...
September 26, 2017
Dear Commissioner Andriukaitis, We are contacting you regarding a serious case of manipulation of science. As you will be aware, Article 8.5 of Regulation 1107/2009 requires a review of the scien...
May 24, 2017
Dear Sir/Madam, Ahead of the meeting of Standing Committee on Plants Animals Food and Feed on 30th of May 2017, section Phytopharmaceuticals - Plant Protection Products – Legislation, we would li...
May 16, 2017
Dear Members of the Standing Committee on Plants Animals Food and Feed, Ahead of the meeting of SCOPAFF on 17th and 18th of May 2017, section Phytopharmaceuticals - Plant Protection Products – Le...
March 27, 2017
We, the undersigned organisations, call on the European Commission to reject the impending mergers of the world’s biggest agrochemical and seed companies. In an already concentrated market, the w...
March 21, 2017
Dear Mrs Colombo, Dr Mr Miko, On this very second day of the Pesticide Action Week, which is being promoted around the world each year from 20-30 March, I am allowing myself to write to you ...
March 20, 2017
Dear Vice President Guillaume, Dear Ms Hübner, As the negotiations between the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council on a revised lobby transparency register will shortly get u...
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 ...
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...