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New attack on EU policy regarding endocrine disruption: Health DG SANCO prepares an escape route for pesticides

May 20, 2014

Commission health service DG SANCO is on its way to develop an escape route for endocrine disrupting pesticides that will be banned in future. This is done behind closed doors with EU member states an...

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

PAN Europe supports Italian citizens' initiative to limit pesticides use in Vinschgau, South Tyrol

April 1, 2014

“Vinschgau: Cultural Region in South Tirol” – This advertisement promotes a cultural landscape in northern Italy that has developed over the last 1000 years. The region represents the longest valley o...

Bees on the spotlight in Brussels: Feverish start to April with debate controlled by agro-chemical industry interests

March 31, 2014

The first week of April 2014, Brussels hosts a series of conferences dealing with bees and pollination. One of these, the Bee Week will take place for the third consecutive year at the European Parlia...

European Ombudsman condemns Food Authority EFSA twice for maladministration

March 28, 2014

In 2011, PAN Europe started a complaint at the Ombudsman on the EFSA Working Group on TTC (Threshold of Toxicological Concern), a statistical approach for risk assessment substituting safety testing. ...

Member States are far from complying with EU targets to reduce pesticides use

March 27, 2014

High time for the European Commission to take action to ensure respect of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides DirectivePesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has today sent another letter to Commi...

Member States against EU pesticide reduction

Pesticides use in ecological focus areas: The delegated acts of the Common Agricultural Policy reform move responsibility to Member States

March 12, 2014

Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) finds it deplorable that the European Commission did not manage to agree on a set of delegated acts answering such a simple question as to whether or not t...

Massive industry network uncovered in EFSA and WHO trying to stop the new policy on stricter food standards for pesticide mixtures; first ever example of EU Commission fighting back

February 4, 2014

PAN Europe research reveals a covered multi-year orchestrated industry lobby to stop adopted policy to protect people against the harms of everyday consumption of pesticide mixtures. A network of indu...

Stop risky herbicide 2,4-D

January 27, 2014

Growing of genetically engineered plants likely to increase spraying of “agent orange herbicide” - if approved, it could be imported into the EU as GM animal feed.Testbiotech, GeneWatch UK and t...

It is a fact now: European Commission missed the deadline for presenting the criteria for endocrine disrupting pesticides

December 16, 2013

According to pesticide Regulation 1107/2009 European Commission should present “a draft of the measures concerning specific scientific criteria for the determination of endocrine disrupting properties...

Of course we can feed Europe using less pesticides

December 5, 2013

Today the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (IBMA), the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) and the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) are hosting ...

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