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PAN Europe’s reply to your letter of 22 April 2024 and raises further concerns about PFAS pesticides & their persistent metabolite trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)

June 19, 2024

Dear Mr Thévenard, With this letter, PAN Europe would like to follow up on your response dated 22 April 2024[1] to our previous correspondence of 28 February regarding PFAS pesticide residues in ...

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Support the EU Nature Restoration Law, for a healthy, thriving future for ecosystems and citizens

June 14, 2024

Dear Prime Minister Tusk,We hope this finds you well. We write to you to ask you to approve the EU Nature Restoration Law at the Environmental Council meeting on 17th of June.Ratifying the Nature Rest...

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European Commission proposal to update priority substances for surface and groundwater

June 11, 2024

Dear Water Directors, On behalf of the undersigning organisations, we are writing to you ahead of the meeting of Water and Marine Directors’ where the Commission’s proposal to update the lists of...

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Every Life counts - Urging EU commitment to stop EU production and exports of banned and hazardous pesticides in the next strategic agenda

June 5, 2024

Dear EU Heads of State and Government, Ministries of Agriculture, Ministries of Environment, Ministries of Health,With this letter we, a coalition of Civil Society Organizations engaged in protecting ...

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Urgent request to include Trifluoroacetic Acid (TFA) as a priority substance under the Water Framework Directive (WD)

May 30, 2024

Dear Deputy Permanent Representatives, We, the undersigned coalition of NGOs from the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), are writing to draw your attention to the concerning findings f...

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European Commission proposal to update priority substances for surface and groundwater

May 22, 2024

Dear Ambassador, On behalf of the undersigning organisations, we are writing to you to urge you to reject proposals to further weaken the Commission’s proposal to update the lists of priority pol...

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EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed; 22-23 May - position of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe

May 17, 2024

Dear members of the PAFF committee, On 22 and 23 May, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss and/or adopt opinions on several proposals of the E...

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Support an ambitious first EU Soil Law

May 15, 2024

Dear Minister, I write to you on behalf of PAN Europe in view of the ongoing negotiations on the Commission’s proposal for a Soil Monitoring Law. Given the significant shortcomings of the Commiss...

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EFSA’s scientific assessment of pesticides in greenhouses

May 13, 2024

Dear Guilhem de Sèze, Regulation (EU) 1107/2009 on pesticides mentions that greenhouses are systems that prevent the release of pesticides into the environment (art.3(27)). As EFSA is aware, PAN ...

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Open letter by civil society on the rollback of green measures in the EU

May 13, 2024

Our society’s relationship with the nature that sustains it is fundamentally broken. Despite the growing evidence of looming ecological collapse and the alarming acceleration of the climate crisis, Eu...

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