Press releases
October 22, 2024
Today marks two years since the European Commission published its proposal to update the lists of EU priority pollutants that should be monitored and regulated in EU waters. With a number of har...
September 24, 2024
Hazardous pesticides banned in Europe are making their way into European consumers’ diets, according to a new report by PAN Europe. Many of these toxic pesticides are produced by European companies an...
September 19, 2024
Recent research and publications reveal widespread environmental contamination with fluorinated forever chemicals. What they report seems to be only the tip of the iceberg. At this very moment, PFAS p...
September 18, 2024
Today, an overwhelming majority of the Members of the European Parliament vetoed the European Commission's decision to allow residues of three EU-banned pesticides in certain imported food and feed pr...
September 5, 2024
The EU Ombudsman urges the European Commission to speed up the substitution of the most hazardous pesticides within the EU. Following a complaint by PAN Europe, she concludes that there was no maladmi...
July 23, 2024
The use of conventional pesticides in agriculture on agricultural land will no longer be allowed in the Brussels region as of 2030. The use of synthetic pesticides by others than farmers will be banne...
July 10, 2024
Alarmed by the high levels of contamination with the forever chemical TFA (trifluoroacetic acid) in European water bodies, the Pesticide Action Network (PAN Europe) analysed 55 drinking water samples ...
June 27, 2024
On 26 June 2024, the European Commission rejected the formal request by PAN Europe and 5 of its member NGOs to review the 10-year re-approval of glyphosate. The NGOs plan to challenge the decision in ...
June 19, 2024
Today, Member States’ ambassadors to the EU have adopted an agreement giving EU countries the right to pollute rather than protect our water for the next decades, and to weaken existing water protecti...
June 17, 2024
The EU Nature Restoration Law finally cleared the final hurdle in the EU Council of Environment Ministers today. More than 1 million people have called for measures to restore biodiversity with the Eu...