Press releases
August 31, 2023
The European Commission just released[1] its latest indicators on pesticide use and risk for the year 2021. This comes on top of its publication[2] in July of the EU 2021 results towards Farm to Fork ...
July 26, 2023
Today, 11 global civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations representing small-scale farmers, agricultural workers, trade unions, and rights holders urged Mr. Qu Dongyu to begin his new term a...
July 17, 2023
The European Commission has acted behind closed doors and already presented a draft glyphosate renewal report[1] to Member States, according to a leaked document received by PAN Europe. A proposal for...
July 6, 2023
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) today gave shocking positive advice to move forward with the prolongation of the use of Europe's most widely used herbicide glyphosate despite a series of dat...
July 5, 2023
Today, the European Commission published its new legislative proposal to deregulate new-generation GMOs, the so-called "New Genomic Techniques" (NGTs). PAN Europe considers that the "solutions" propos...
June 27, 2023
The European Parliament has sent a clear signal on the need to curb water pollution by voting in support of measures that will improve monitoring and help guide action.MEPs on the Environment Committe...
June 13, 2023
Farmers, citizens and nature in the EU are not properly protected from the negative impacts of dangerous pesticides. Recently The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and other media reported on chemical c...
June 12, 2023
Green Deal is to preserve a sustainable future for the next generations and farmersIn a joint open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, more than 100 civil society organisatio...
June 1, 2023
EU Member States agreed to a proposal to ban one of Europe’s most toxic pesticides. The fungicide dimoxystrobin was authorised for use in 15 EU Member States. Pesticide Action Network cheers the decis...
May 23, 2023
45 million loaves of bread. That was the argument of a conservative Austrian politician to allow crops on use areas destined for nature and biodiversity. One year later we see the results. Hardly any ...