Press releases
October 7, 2013
On Wednesday last week, the European Commission has exposed its REFIT (Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme) plan to increase Commission’s efficiency by reducing “regulatory burdens” [1] under...
September 24, 2013
A new Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN-E) study reveals that the national authorities in the Netherlands fail to protect the environment against the harmful effects of pesticides. European Regulat...
September 16, 2013
The European network Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) denounces the provision to support a priori a revision of the European criteria for the exclusion of pesticides endocrine disruptors a...
September 10, 2013
The European Food Authority EFSA promoted Ms. Juliane Kleiner to the crucial position of science director just before the summer. Ms. Kleiner used to work for industry lobby group ILSI (International ...
August 28, 2013
The Swiss and German chemical producers have decided to sue the European Commission to court on the ban imposed on thiamethoxam, clothianidin and imidacloprid. In April this year, following EFSA’s con...
July 17, 2013
PAN Europe welcomes the vote of the Standing Committee on Phytopharmaceuticals. Yesterday, Member States (MS) have voted in favour of the European Commission’s proposal to ban fipronil, an insecticide...
July 10, 2013
The worrying results of the survey show the need for an ambitious policy on endocrine disrupting chemicals.EXPPERT investigations. In order to show the urgency of a strong preventive action in the end...
July 7, 2013
Despite the important and historic step in the right direction, the European Commission’s partial and possibly temporary ban on neonicotinoids does not entirely follow European Food Safety Authority (...
June 20, 2013
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has sent today a letter to Commissioner Borg questioning Member States’ seriousness in implementing the Directive on Sustainable Use of pesticides, identif...
June 13, 2013
Générations Futures and Pesticide Action Network Europe prove that our food contains residues of neonicotinoid family of insecticides implicated in the decline of bee colonies and urges the French Gov...