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Preventing the down-fall of the EDCs policy

June 30, 2015

Preventing the down-fall of the EDCs policy: Bringing back the science on EDCs to the European Parliament for open discussion (EDCs Roundtable 30th June 2015, 15:00-18:00).Organised by Pesticide Actio...

PFT
Pesticide free towns – Belgium on the move

June 9, 2015

Yesterday, Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has together with Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), Velt, Inter-Environment Bruxelles, Greenpeace Belgium, Inter-Environnement Wallo...

Banned pesticides still in use in the EU
EU health policy on endocrine disruption collatoral damage in Commission health service SANTE's power play

May 20, 2015

In 2010, EU Commission granted DG Environment (DG ENV) the lead on the development of the criteria for endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC's). But EU health service SANCO (now SANTE) was disloyal to t...

Bee & Pink Flower
European Commission delays protection of bees while Nature study shows neonicotinoids put at risk food production

April 23, 2015

Field monitoring shows that neonicotinoids are currently eliminating natural pollinators from our agricultural land. Wild bees are necessary for 86% of crop pollination. In the meantime, the European ...

Pesticides
Voices of pesticides now have a space to tell their stories

March 20, 2015

For the first time a coalition of national and European NGOs have taken the initiative to bring tOgether the voices of the victims of pesticide poisoning by launching today - the first day of the 10th...

Fruits and Vegetables
Toxic mixtures of pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables keep on flooding EU markets; 63% of the strawberries contain more than one pesticide, 12% more than 6

March 12, 2015

Food Authority EFSA  published today the results of the monitoring of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables for the year 2013. Again the level of toxic mixtures in the food on the market ap...

Glyphosate
New non-commercial research proves that industry’s claims on pesticide bans are flawed

January 20, 2015

For the first time an in-depth research by a non-commercial group shows the exact numbers of endocrine disrupting pesticides (ED-pesticides) that will be regulated if the options of Commission roadmap...

EU Court
Luxembourg court blocks NGO's rights on access to court

January 13, 2015

Today Luxembourg court (Grand Chamber) in a final ruling decided that NGO's have no right on access to court and agreed with  EU Commission, Council and Czech Republic who started an appeal to a ...

IPM
The European Commission misses deadline to increased use of alternatives for pest and disease control

November 26, 2014

The European Commission missed today’s deadline to submit a report to the Parliament and the Council on increased use of alternatives for pest and disease control. Let us hope that this does not refle...

Maize
When Member States make EU policy look ridiculous: the case of western corn rootworm

November 11, 2014

In yesterday and today’s agricultural council, the Austrian and the Hungarian delegations will suggest to allow more pesticides in EU’s maize sector under the excuse of needing to eradicate a well-est...

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