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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-...

Tomato Field
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 ...

Fields and Water
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...

Arthropods
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...

Towards Pesticide Use Reduction
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...

Pesticides: Play it safe!
NGO group opposes the renewal of two endocrine disrupting pesticides

October 15, 2021

On 21 and 22 October, the national representatives of the PAFF committee are invited to vote on the renewal of two active substances with well-known disruptive properties (Cypermethrin) or highly susp...

Maize
DG Sante is derailing the pesticides reduction objectives of the European Green Deal

October 6, 2021

During a meeting[1] on the impact assessment linked to the revision of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (SUD), the consultant has disclosed the different options, as proposed by DG Sante. T...

Bees
Save Bees and Farmers European Citizens Initiative: citizens demand the end of the pesticides era

September 30, 2021

Jointly with over 200 organisations across Europe, PAN Europe is preparing to celebrate the success of the second anti-pesticides European Citizens Initiative (ECI), having collected over 1 million si...

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Save Bees and Farmers ECI: Will the citizens win or not?

September 27, 2021

The EU Pollinator Week starting today is a perfect occasion to garner more support for the ‘Save Bees and Farmers’ European Citizens’ Initiative that has four more days to reach its target of 1 millio...

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