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Non-sprayed areas near houses: latest updates on the stormy French debate
PAN Europe et Nature & Progrès Belgique introduisent un recours en justice contre les autorisations systématiques des pesticides les plus toxiques en Belgique

December 7, 2022

Les ONGs belge et européenne Nature & Progrès et PAN Europe ont conjointement demandé au Conseil d’Etat belge qu’il suspende immédiatement l’autorisation de deux insecticides à base de Cyperméthri...

Pesticides
Civil society & IPs to FAO: Demonstrate bold leadership on climate action, end agreement with pesticide industry

December 5, 2022

As the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Council convenes its 171st Session today, PAN (Pesticide Action Network) Europe, calls upon the agency to demonstrate bold leadership on climate action b...

EU Law
European Commission mustn’t abandon promise on hazardous chemical exports ban made in EU Green Deal

November 30, 2022

Ahead of 3 December Global No Pesticides Day,  More than 326 civil society organisations from across the globe, institutions and trade unions have published a Joint Statement demanding a ban on t...

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1 Million EU citizens tell EU Commission: end the war against nature

November 28, 2022

Vice-President Jourová and Commissioner Kyriakides receive Bees ECI demandsOn Friday 25 November, representatives of the European Citizens Initiative Save Bees and Farmers delivered a clear message to...

Bees continuously threatened
1 Million EU citizens knock on the EU door: end the war against nature

November 23, 2022

November 25th – Commissionaires Jourová and Kyriakides receive Bees ECI demandsFriday 25 November at 15h civil society formally knocks on the door of the EU institutions. Representatives of the E...

Glyphosate and Water
No blank cheque for Glyphosate for an extra year

November 15, 2022

Today, sufficient EU Member States blocked the Commission's proposal in the Appeal Committee to extend the expiring authorisation of glyphosate for an extra year. Pesticide Action Network Europe welco...

EU Commission
Toxicity of pesticide co-formulants: EU Commission proposes rules that will leave health and the environment unprotected

November 10, 2022

The European Commission has just published a proposal for a Commission implementing regulation on co-formulants[1]. PAN Europe considers that the current proposal is not in line with EU law, and will ...

Biomonitoring of pesticides in hair: How veterinary drugs contaminate human hair
Europe-wide citizen science action shows pesticides are present in the hair of every third person tested

October 19, 2022

Results of the Pesticide-CheckUp, a citizens’ science action initiated by the civil society alliance Good Food Good Farming with the support of 10 national partner organisations, reveal that harm...

EU Pesticide Atlas 2022
Europe must slash pesticide use to protect people’s and planet’s health: New ‘Pesticide Atlas’ reveals toxic global impact of hazardous chemicals used in agriculture

October 18, 2022

While tension is rising amongst EU Member States on new pesticide reduction targets, the new ‘Pesticide Atlas 2022’ [1] released today by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Friends of the Earth Europe and PA...

Glyphosate
Prolonging EU Glyphosate authorisation for an extra year: very bad news for nature and health

October 13, 2022

On 13th or 14 of October, EU Member States will discuss to extend the authorization of glyphosate for an extra year during this week SCoPAFF meeting[1]. PAN Europe is outraged. There is...

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