Press releases
February 15, 2017
Today (15 january) and tomorrow, Luxembourg will be the field of a battle opposing Bayer and Syngenta against the European Commission on the 2013 ban on neonicotinoids. The pesticide companies are att...
February 8, 2017
“Campaigners and activists are meeting today in Brussels and other cities all across Europe (Madrid, Rome, Berlin and Paris) to launch a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) in order to put pressu...
January 11, 2017
The provision of false or incomplete information is a very common tactic the industry makes use of in order to cast doubt among decision makers[1]. After the November 2016 publication of 2 new EFSA re...
December 7, 2016
The substitution of animal testing of chemicals by non-animal testing prediction systems (NATPS) could lead to large-scale misuse of these systems, the new PAN Europe report "AOP, the trojan horse for...
December 6, 2016
Happy birthday! But, again, no gift!! The European Commission is two years late in delivering a simple report, failing to ensure implementation of the Sustainable Use Directive on Pesticides.In 2009, ...
December 5, 2016
In observation of World Soil Day, today December 5th, 2016, Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) stands in solidarity with the #People4Soil campaign and 430 other organisations to extend impor...
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...
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...
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...
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...