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Member States against EU pesticide reduction

Banned pesticides still widely used: How EU Member states abuse emergency authorisations

January 12, 2023

Pesticides banned by the EU because of harm and danger are still in our food or environment. Many EU countries continue to allow their use. In a new report, PAN Europe exposes the widespread abuse of ...

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...

PAN Europe en Nature & Progrès België procederen tegen de systematische toelating van de meest toxische pesticiden in België

December 7, 2022

De Belgische en Europese NGO's Nature & Progrès en PAN Europe hebben de Belgische Raad van State gezamenlijk verzocht de toelating van twee insecticiden op basis van cypermethrin onmiddellijk op t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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