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Open debate at the EP on the Commission's upcoming proposal to ban pesticide use in ecological focus areas

December 2, 2016

Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has welcomed the European Commission's intention to proceed with its proposal to ban the use of pesticides in productive Ecological Focus Areas (EFA) as so...

Another inconvenient truth: pesticides companies flood EU institutions paying millions of euros in lobbying

November 16, 2016

Today, the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) has organised a conference in the European Parliament on the importance of pesticides in EU agriculture. The fallacious century-old “we need to f...

Member States against EU pesticide reduction

EU member states block Commission's criteria proposal for endocrine disruption

November 3, 2016

The draft legal act proposed last June by EU Commission on the criteria to identify endocrine disrupting pesticides/biocides has generated so far little support by EU Member States in the Commission’s...

Forbidden fruit: The dramatic rise in dangerous pesticides found on fruits and vegetables sold in Europe and evidence that governments are failing their legal obligations

Your children’s favorite fruits contain multiple residues of pesticides according to EFSA...

October 28, 2016

Today, 26th October 2016, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published its annual report on pesticide residues found in food in the EU member states. Year after year, the proportion of food wit...

Comprehensive New Review of Monsanto’s Glyphosate Underscores Urgent Need for Global Action

October 11, 2016

In a “state of the science” review released today, PAN International presents a large body of research documenting the adverse human health and environmental impacts of glyphosate and glyphosate-based...

NO pesticides in Ecological Focus Areas

October 10, 2016

Today the Agricultural Council will be discussing measures to streamline or simplify the CAP greening payments. 18 member States oppose the European Commission’s proposal to ban use of pesticides in t...

PAN Europe court victory increases transparency for Europeans

September 21, 2016

PAN Europe just won a legal case at the European Court of Justice against the EU Commission (DG Trade), for refusing to provide access to documents with information on endocrine disrupting chemicals (...

Food Authority EFSA gives an extra swing to the pesticide treadmill

September 1, 2016

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), in the holiday period1, published a 'protocol' for the implementation of a major pesticide derogation, Article 4.7 of Regulation 1107/2009. The derogation wi...

Weed management: Alternatives to the use of glyphosate

Italy Places Important Restrictions on the Use of Glyphosate

August 24, 2016

PAN Europe enthusiastically applauds the decision by Italy’s Ministry of Health to place a number of restrictions on the use of Glyphosate, one of the world’s most ubiquitous pesticides.The Italian re...

EU Health Commissioner Andriukaitis decides to leave Europeans unprotected from endocrine disrupting pesticides

June 15, 2016

Commissioner Andriukaitis' choice for option 2 of the EU 2014-Roadmap already would lead to banning only a few pesticides, Impact endocrine criteria - PAN Europe, but by changing on top of this the le...

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