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Industry writing Its own rules
3 Million Euro EU subsidy for food industry to promote the lowering of food standards

October 15, 2013

Today, European food traders organization Freshfel and a few national institutes present the results of the program ACROPOLIS on the so-called 'probabilistic risk assessment' of mixtures of pesticide ...

EU Court
Luxemburg court rules that EU Commission has to make public the full composition of pesticides

October 8, 2013

Today, 8th of October 2013, an important verdict has been published by the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxemburg) on the access of information concerning pesticides [1].In 2010, to PAN Eur...

EU Commission
European Commission attempts to suppress citizens’ access to environmental justice

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...

Glyphosate
A RACE TO THE BOTTOM: Pesticide authorisation bodies in Europe compete for industry applications, sacrificing the protection of the environment

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...

EDCs
PAN Europe on the EDCs French Strategy: a provision that should not be present

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...

eu parliament
Can a science director at food authority EFSA with an industry background be neutral on science?

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 ...

Bee & Pink Flower
Neonicotinoids Ban: Masks have fallen, Syngenta and Bayer sue European Commission to court

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...

Dead bee
Fipronil: European ban on bee-killing insecticides goes on

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...

Strawberries
EXPPERT Survey II: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and banned Pesticides in strawberries

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...

Bees
PAN Europe challenges European Commission to go further on neonicotinoids

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 (...

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