Letters

Civil society organisations urge the Council of the European Union to strengthen EU water legislation to protect European waters and citizens from pesticide pollution

March 19, 2024

Dear Permanent Representative, With this letter, the undersigned civil society organisations express their deepest concerns about the current attempt to weaken the ambition of the European Commis...

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

March 18, 2024

Dear Member of the European Parliament, The Commission’s attack on the environmental conditionality of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is outrageous and unacceptable. The Commission is fast-...

EU Standing committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed - 20-21 March - position of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe

March 15, 2024

Dear members of the PAFF committee, On 20 and 21 March, 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...

Joint letter to the EU Commission to reconsider the loosening of the CAP’s green architecture

March 6, 2024

We, the undersigned European coalitions 1 and civil society organisations, who work every day for an agroecological and fair transition toward sustainable food systems, including a better Common Agric...

Nature-based water resilience cannot wait

March 5, 2024

Dear European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, We are writing to you as a group of stakeholders, united by our concern for healthy freshwater and marine ecosystems, to express our regre...

Joint call for food system transformation and a legislative framework for sustainable food systems in the next mandate

March 1, 2024

Dear President von der Leyen, We, the undersigned organisations, are urging you to call on the next Commission to make the transition to sustainable food systems a high political priority. The ne...

European citizens face increasing exposure to cocktails of PFAS pesticides through their food - Urgent call to ban PFAS pesticides in the European Union (UE)

February 28, 2024

Dear Commissioner Kyriakides,With this letter, PAN Europe would like to bring to your attention the concerning findings of our report about PFAS pesticides in EU food ‘Toxic Harvest: the rise of forev...

Joint Statement: The EU must make pesticide reduction a reality

February 23, 2024

We, the undersigned 125 organisations, condemn the failure of the European Parliament, Council and Commission to deliver on a crucial element of the Green Deal: pesticide reduction. On February 6th 20...

CEFIC event letter to De Croo

February 19, 2024

Dear Prime Minister De Croo, We are appalled that today the Belgian Presidency of the EU is organising, alongside the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and its Belgian industry member Es...

Joint statement of the undersigned organisations in solidarity with farmers in Europe

February 8, 2024

On 1 February 2024, civil society organisations gathered in Brussels in front of the European Parliament in solidarity with peasants. In response to a call from the European Coordination Via Campesina...

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