Press releases
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...
June 4, 2013
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) heeft in opdracht van het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu (IenM) de kwaliteit van het werk van het Ctgb (Commissie toelating van gewasbeschermingsm...
May 17, 2013
Two new pesticides for seed treatment, Sedexane, a Syngenta fungicide for wheat, and Penflufen, a Bayer fungicide for potatoes, both show high risks for birds according to the EFSA opinions [1], [2]. ...
May 6, 2013
Today, the European Commission has adopted "a package of measures to strengthen the enforcement of health and safety standards for the whole agri-food chain" and, as part of this, a proposal for ...
May 2, 2013
Today an employee of German chemical multinational BASF, Mr. Bernhard van Ravenzwaay, will officially get a professor seat at Dutch agricultural university of Wageningen [1] in exchange for BASF-fundi...