Press releases
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...
June 5, 2024
Three NGOs have sued the Belgian State for reauthorising 3 highly toxic pesticides containing abamectin. The EU regulation clearly states that this dangerous pesticide can only be used in completely c...
May 27, 2024
Pesticide Action Network Europe and its member organisations expose dirty PFAS legacy under the radar - swift political action required.An exploratory joint survey of 23 surface and six groundwat...
May 2, 2024
PAN Europe has lodged an appeal at the European Court of Justice to overturn the first instance ruling on the re-approval of cypermethrin, a highly toxic insecticide. This is the very first time a civ...
April 25, 2024
In two groundbreaking rulings, the EU Court of Justice has declared the assessment of pesticides by EU Member States unlawful. The rulings put an end to the common practice of disregarding recent scie...