Press releases
July 12, 2006
After a year's delay, the European Commission today adopted its 'Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides', with a proposal to revise the EU pesticides market authorisation rules. It als...
June 12, 2006
European Union Commissioners must tomorrow choose between protecting citizens' health or knuckling under to a coalition of powerful pesticide producers. DG SANCO(1) proposes to approve several hazardo...
January 18, 2006
Within the next ten days the European Commission is seeking approval by the Member States to authorise a number of dangerous pesticides(1) for use within Europe - several of which are mutagenic, hormo...
March 2, 2004
Environmental Groups and Trade Unions Mount Legal Challenge to European Commission Approval of Toxic Herbicide Paraquat.A coalition of international trade union organizations and environmental NGOs ha...
November 20, 2003
Today the Pesticides Action Network (PAN) Europe and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) hold an international conference in Copenhagen on 'Reducing pesticide dependency in Europe to protect healt...
October 3, 2003
The EU failed to ban Paraquat, one of the most dangerous and controversial herbicides in the world. Member States took the weaker option when voting in the EU Commission's Standing Committee on the Fo...