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Impact assessment of the criteria for endocrine disrupting pesticides
Study shows: impact of endocrine criteria low for agriculture but very positive for the health of EU citizens

June 14, 2016

PAN Europe carried out an impact assessment of the proposed criteria for endocrine disrupting pesticides (EDCs) in a report published just ahead of the meeting of the College of EU Commissioners on th...

PFT
PAN Europe Conducts Webinar to Inspire Towns to Become Pesticide Free

May 31, 2016

As a part of EU Green Week, Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) conducted a European-wide webinar to exchange practical information on how towns across Europe can become pesticide-free. Hoste...

Glyphosate
European organizations warn regulators: “By reauthorizing glyphosate you’re increasing our cancers”

May 12, 2016

Today, Pesticide Action Network Europe together with 38 European health and environmental organisations, are sending an open letter to the decision-makers of the 28 EU Member States to urge them to vo...

Weed management: Alternatives to the use of glyphosate
Environmentalists press charges against Monsanto and EU regulatory authorities

April 21, 2016

The Munich Environmental Institute (Umweltinstitut München) and Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Germany join PAN Europe and 5 EU environmental organisations in their legal proceedings against those res...

EU Commission
EU Commission proposes its first bans for endocrine disrupting pesticides

April 14, 2016

The 2009-pesticide Regulation rules that endocrine disrupting pesticides should not be allowed on the market. Health Commissioner Andriukaitis now for the first time proposes to ban two of these pesti...

Glyphosate
Over 180,000 people call for ban on glyphosate

March 7, 2016

Today, several environmental, health and other NGOs will deliver to the EU Health Commissioner and Member State representatives over 180,000 signatures from European citizens to ban glyphosate. The NG...

Weed management: Alternatives to the use of glyphosate
2 March 2016 Glyphosate re-authorisation: NGOs join forces to demand legal action for fraud against Monsanto, BfR and EFSA

March 2, 2016

Brussels, 2nd of March 2016. Six environmental NGOs (Global 2000, PAN Europe, PAN UK, Generations Futures, Nature et Progrès Belgique and Wemove.EU) from five European countries are filing today a for...

EU Commission
Commission found guilty of 'maladministration' by the EU Ombudsman

February 22, 2016

The practice of EU Commission health service SANTE to approve pesticides while important safety data are missing, the so-called "confirmatory data procedure" (CDP), is a case of maladministration acco...

EDCs
Health Commissioner Andriukaitis fails to ban the most dangerous endocrine disrupting pesticides, the "Dirty Six"

December 11, 2015

A large reservoir of pesticides with unacceptable health effects is present at EU Commission health service DG SANTE but Mr. Andriukatis' DG makes no move to ban them. Not one of the six most harmful ...

Glyphosate
135,733 Europeans call to ban glyphosate

December 9, 2015

16 Organisations deliver a message: 135,733 Europeans call to ban glyphosateWednesday 9 December, at 12:00 the call was delivered at DG SANTE’s premises located in Breydel Street, No 4, ...

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