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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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Concerns regarding risk assessment of PFAS active substances used in pesticides and their residues in food, and meeting request

May 8, 2024

Dear Mr. Bernhard Url, PAN Europe and the undersigned member organisations would like to express our serious concerns about the risk posed by the increasing detection of PFAS-active substances in...

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Request to ban the fungicide difenoconazole

May 3, 2024

Dear Health Commissioner Ms. Kyriakides, We are writing to you regarding the delayed decision on the non-renewal of the pesticide difenoconazole. The deadline for the assessment of the active sub...

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Call to support the Commission's proposal to lower all the (Maximum Residue Limits) MRLs of thiacloprid (C. 05)

April 18, 2024

Dear members of the PAFF committee, On 22 and 23 April, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss the European Commission's proposal to lower all t...

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Call for a ban on hazardous pesticides and their residues in European food products: thiacloprid and other reprotoxic pesticides

April 9, 2024

Dear Commissioner Kyriakides, PAN Europe writes to you to express its concerns regarding the European Commission’s handling of pesticide substances known to be harmful to reproduction (known/pres...

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Support the first EU Soil Law

April 8, 2024

Dear Member of the European Parliament, We are writing to you in view of the Plenary vote on the Soil Monitoring Law on 10 April. Although we strongly regret the lack of binding targets, mandator...

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The attack of the Commission on the environmental conditionality of the CAP is undemocratic, outrageous, and threatens the legitimacy of the CAP

March 22, 2024

Dear Ms Ursula von der Leyen, Dear Mr Janusz Wojciechowski, Dear Mr Virginijus Sinkevičius, The Commission’s attack on the environmental conditionality of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is ...

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