Press releases
January 17, 2024
Thiacloprid was banned in 2020 because of its toxicity to the unborn, and concerns about the contamination of groundwater with carcinogenic metabolites. Thiacloprid is also highly toxic to bees and ot...
December 20, 2023
Brussels, 20. December 2023. - PAN Europe has initiated 2 new legal actions before the General Court of the EU. The goal is to fix the misimplementation of the EU pesticide legislation. We challenge t...
December 12, 2023
Sampling of rain and surface waters around greenhouses in Belgium, Netherlands, Spain and Germany shows contamination by an alarmingly high number of pesticides. This includes substances commonly used...
December 4, 2023
The EU Commission shows its close ties to the industry in a 3-day event on pesticide regulations with the industry as the only invited stakeholder. The meeting is held from 5-7 December in Braunschwei...
November 22, 2023
EU Parliament Rejects Pesticides ReductionToday the European Parliament voted down the Commission’s proposal for an ambitious pesticides reduction in Europe. The proposal was urgent and essential to e...
November 20, 2023
While the European Commission is poised to formally re-approve the controversial herbicide in the coming days, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe and 4 member organisations are set to challenge the...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...