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Glyphosate and Water
No Qualified Majority for glyphosate renewal: EU Commission will now decide

November 16, 2023

PAN Europe applauds that some countries share public and scientific concernsThe European Commission's proposal to reapprove the glyphosate licence for 10 years faced another deadlock today. It failed ...

Towards Pesticide Use Reduction
Beneath the orange fields: Impact of Glyphosate (herbicides) on soil organisms

November 15, 2023

Glyphosate and glyphosate based herbicides can harm soil organisms, which perform essential ecosystem functions. This is underlined in a new brief of PAN Europe, summarising important findings from sc...

Tomato Field
New report exposes hidden threat: PFAS presence in pesticides

November 9, 2023

In a joint report released today, the NGOs Générations Futures and Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe shed light on a previously overlooked concern: a specific category of pesticide active ingredie...

Glyphosate
Glyphosate-based herbicides linked to leukemia at a young age, in major new research

October 25, 2023

European NGOs demand an urgent policy rethink and no renewal of glyphosate.A new study published groundbreaking data on how low levels of glyphosate herbicides - that have previously assumed to be saf...

Vote
ENVI Committee Vote on Pesticides Regulation SUR

October 24, 2023

Today Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) upheld and partially improved the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on the use of pe...

EU
October 24 ENVI Committee vote on Pesticides Regulation SUR Citizens and Scientists are concerned and ask for high ambition

October 19, 2023

Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) have a fundamental choice to make: will they support an ambitious regulation on the use of pesticide...

PAN Europe takes the issue of pesticide derogations to the Court of Justice of the European Union
Illegal use of neonicotinoid-treated seeds: Belgian Court overturns Belgium's pesticide derogations

October 19, 2023

In a judgment published on 18 October, the Belgian Council of State overturned Belgium's derogations for the use of neonicotinoid-treated seeds in 4 legal procedures initiated by PAN Europe and its Be...

Flowers
Verbod op gebruik van zaden met neonicotinoïden: De Raad van State stelt gezondheid en milieu voorop

October 19, 2023

De Raad van State heeft de beroepen tot nietigverklaring van Nature et Progrès en PAN Europe tegen toelaten van veboden pesticiden toegewezen. Dit maakt een einde aan het gebruik van zaden die omhuld ...

Member States against EU pesticide reduction
EU Member States do not agree on glyphosate renewal

October 13, 2023

The EU Member States did not reach a qualified majority to reapprove the licence for glyphosate In the SCoPAFF meeting today. PAN Europe welcomes the decision. Gergely Simon, Senior Policy Officer at ...

Supermarket
REPORT: Opinion poll shows Europeans are opposed to gambling with pesticides and want policy-makers to play safe

October 5, 2023

European citizens are highly concerned about the use of pesticides and its effect on health and the environment. This is shown in a survey in six member states of the European Union - Denmark, France,...

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