Letters
April 7, 2015
Dear Commissioner Andriukaitis, The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency, has recently classified the pesticide glyphosate as "probabl...
April 7, 2015
Dear Commissioner Andriukaitis, The World Health Organisation’s cancer agency IARC has declared the pesticide Glyphosate and Malathion a “probable human carcinogen”. The IARC reached its decision...
July 1, 2014
Dear Commissioner Borg, As you will be very much aware, for many years now there has been much discussion on the adverse effects of the herbicide Glyphosate. An enormous amount of independent aca...
April 3, 2007
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN-E) publicly presented figures of poisoning incidents caused by paraquat in Portugal that have been contested by Syngenta. I would like to clarify the source of thi...
December 19, 2006
On behalf of the undersigned environmental non-government organizations, we are writing to express our disappointment and concern that the European Commission agreed to allow very large methyl bromide...
November 27, 2006
Monsieur le Commissaire, Une vingtaine d’associations de protection de l’environnement et d’organisation apicoles ont écrit très récemment à votre collègue, Monsieur Markos Kyprianou, pour lui fa...
November 24, 2006
Dear Sir/Madam, In 2003 the European Parliament showed great interest in the problems that European beekeepers have been facing in the past fifteen years, by adopting a resolution1 inviting the C...
November 21, 2006
Dear Sir/Madam,We would like to raise your attention to the undergoing evaluation of the insecticide fipronil within the framework of Directive 91/414/EEC on the placing of plant protection products i...
November 16, 2006
Dear Commissioner, The signatories of this letter are representatives of beekeeper associations, consumers and environmental organisations. Moved by the current situation of beekeeping in Europe,...
November 13, 2006
Dear Sir/Madam,We would like to direct your attention to the evaluation of the herbicide, glufosinateamonium, currently being undertaken in the framework of Directive 91/414/EEC for the placing of pes...