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EU Commission draft Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation undermines the objectives of the European Green Deal

February 4, 2022

The leaked draft Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation shows a strong lack of ambition, giving Member States numerous possibilities to derail the objectives of the Green Deal. Despite some improvem...

Revealed: How the European Council torpedoes transparency on pesticide use - Environmental organizations demand action from member states in trilogue

February 2, 2022

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe and the environmental organization GLOBAL 2000 - Friends of the Earth Austria reveal in their report “Taking Aim with a Blindfold on” how a group of Member States...

EFSA actively undermines the protection of Wild Bees

January 31, 2022

Wild bees are in decline across the EU and to date, they still remain unprotected against pesticides. While the pesticide regulation claims that no unacceptable harm on the environment is accepted, th...

First EU anti-pesticides legal challenges: PAN Europe takes advantage of the recently revised Aarhus regulation

January 27, 2022

Since the EU finally opened its Courts for environmental challenges to NGOs and individuals to question any EU decision concerning environmental law, PAN Europe has just launched two legal actions: on...

UN FAO urged to abandon controversial pesticide industry partnership - More than 187,300 individuals sign global petition

December 3, 2021

Today, civil society and indigenous people organizations delivered more than 187,300 petition signatures from over 107 countries to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-...

Pollinis and PAN Europe boycott EFSA meeting on neonicotinoids derogations to denounce a flawed assessment

November 30, 2021

Today, the EFSA is holding a meeting to expose its methodology on the assessment of 17 derogations provided by 11 Member States for the use of neonicotinoids on sugar beets in 2020 and 2021. Pollinis ...

The French Presidency of the EU Council (PFUE) must put environmental health at the heart of its presidency’s programme

November 29, 2021

January 2022 onwards, France will have a decisive capacity to take concrete actions to address EU-wide the use of pesticides and other chemical pollutants. NGOs, therefore, call on France to make impa...

Neonicotinoids: EFSA gives a blank cheque to Member States to keep abusing the toxic derogations’ system

November 18, 2021

Today, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published its assessment of derogations[1] provided by EU Member States for the use of neonicotinoid insecticides on sugar beet in 2020. The EFSA has g...

Biodiversity protection against pesticides: EU Ombudsman condemns the European Commission for slyly relying on an industry expert!

November 10, 2021

DG Sante is proposing a new approach to define the level of protection of nature against pesticides: the Specific Protection Goals (SPG) for Ecosystem Services. This approach is supported by the chemi...

PAN Europe takes the issue of pesticide derogations to the Court of Justice of the European Union

Disregarding the European Green Deal, Two Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides Reapproved: Will the Court of Justice Fix This?

November 10, 2021

EU Member States have voted last week for the re-approval of flumioxazin and cypermethrin, two endocrine disrupting and bee-toxic pesticides. This re-approval is in total contradiction with the Europe...

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