Press releases
April 10, 2025
At 4:30 on Thursday morning, EU institutions reached a provisional agreement on the long-awaited, and first-ever, EU legislative framework for soils: the Soil Monitoring Law. However, the deal f...
April 9, 2025
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee failed to take a step forward in its ambition to protect Europe’s water resources under the EU Water Resilience Strategy. It adopted a report that has b...
March 27, 2025
The EU is reviewing a guidance document to protect insects and other arthropods against the negative effects of pesticides. The current document is outdated and was co-written by the pesticide industr...
March 24, 2025
A group of over 450 scientists is calling on the European Union to swiftly update its water pollution standards to address the increasing threat of chemical pollution, including PFAS (‘forever chemica...
March 19, 2025
On the eve of the Pesticide Action Week [1], the Cluj (Romania) Court of Appeal suspended [2] new derogations [3] granted by the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture for the use of neonicotinoid-treated s...
March 18, 2025
PAN Europe is co-organising a high-level event at the European Parliament tomorrow Wednesday 19 March to address an urgent and largely overlooked global threat to drinking water: Trifluoroacetic acid ...
March 13, 2025
In a landmark decision on 12 March, EU Member States adopted the European Commission's proposal to ban the endocrine-disrupting PFAS pesticide flufenacet. PAN Europe applauds this decisive action, whi...
March 4, 2025
PAN Europe has asked the EU Commission to withdraw the pesticide and biocide deltamethrin from the market immediately to prevent any further harm to unborn children. New research shows that exposure o...
February 19, 2025
Today the Commission published its Vision for Agriculture and Food. The text includes a worrying unscientific pesticide industry narrative on pesticides. The Commission backtracked on commitments to b...
January 23, 2025
85 organisations - including environmental, health, and human rights groups, as well as farm worker unions and farmer organisations - have created a Roadmap for Pesticide Phase-Out for EU policy-maker...