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Chemicals
Swiss popular initiative sets out to ban all synthetic agrichemicals

January 18, 2018

Today, the popular initiative Sauberes Wasser für All (“For Clean Drinking Water and a Healthy Diet – Stop Subsidies allocated for Pesticides and Antibiotics for Prophylactic use”) was officially subm...

EU
An unsettling compromise: Member States support Commission’s unfit proposal on hormone disruptors

December 13, 2017

The protection of the health of Europeans as well as that of the environment from the harm caused by hormone disruptors remains a secondary issue for EU Regulators, as Member States confirmed today by...

Glyphosate
Commission rejects demands of #StopGlyphosate citizens’ initiative

December 13, 2017

The European Commission issued its formal response to the #StopGlyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI) [1]. It officially recognised the submission of more than one million signatures on 6 Octob...

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Future Generations
European Guidance Document on endocrine disruptors doomed to fail

December 8, 2017

Alarming concern rises the assessment procedure given in the draft Guidance Document for the identification of pesticides and biocides that are endocrine disruptors (EDs) published yesterday...

Bees
SAVE THE BEES COALITION - 80 EU NGOs gather to demand a full ban on neonicotinoids

December 5, 2017

In December 2013, the European Commission restricted the use of 3 highly bee-toxic neonicotinoid insecticides, namely imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam. On the 4th anniversary of the partial...

Towards Pesticide Use Reduction
On International Day of No Pesticide Use, PAN International Urges Move Towards Agroecology

December 4, 2017

December 3 is the anniversary of the worst peacetime chemical disaster in history. Twenty-seven tons of lethal gases leaked from Union Carbide’s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India on this date in 1984...

Garden
No Future for Farming without Reducing Pesticide Dependency

November 29, 2017

PAN Europe welcomes the European Commission opening up for another round of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform as the current one does not deliver on pesticides. However, we deeply regr...

Maize
PAN Europe's reaction to the assesment report on the sustainable use of pesticides Directive

November 27, 2017

In a reaction report released today, PAN Europe welcomes the European Commission report to the European Parliament and the Council on Member State National Action Plans and on progress in the implemen...

eu parliament
European Parliament and #StopGlyphosate coalition to challenge European Commission over glyphosate renewal

November 20, 2017

Representatives of the #StopGlyphosate European Citizens’ Initiative will present their demands at a hearing in the European Parliament at 3:30 pm today. EU commissioner for health and food safety Vyt...

Children
New Report Reveals Playgrounds are Contaminated in South Tyrol/Italy

November 14, 2017

South-Tyrol Organisation for Nature Conservation and Environment Protection, in collaboration with PAN Europe, recently published a report[1] on the contamination of local playgrounds by pesticides fr...

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