Press releases
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
October 10, 2022
The European Citizens Initiative (ECI) Save Bees and Farmers has passed the 1 million valid signatures milestone. The certificates of 27 EU member states have been accepted and the European Commission...
October 4, 2022
Pesticides are detected in playgrounds and schoolyards, despite measures taken by local authorities in the Italian province of Bolzano-South Tyrol. A new study reveals that the pesticide reduction mea...
September 27, 2022
On the 60th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book that helped trigger the modern environmental movement, pesticide contamination is higher than ever. This is also due to a failure of ...
September 26, 2022
On the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson published her famous book ‘Silent Spring’. She gave the world an important warning. But did we listen?It helped to have DDT and other highly toxic chemical...