Press releases
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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,...
September 28, 2023
All recent science needs to be taken into account The policy of Dutch pesticide authority Ctgb to use decades-old guidelines and ignore scientific studies that demonstrate endocrine disrupting ef...
September 27, 2023
Threat of re-approval based on misinformed risk assessmentBrussels, Vienna, September 27, 2023 - In a submission made today to the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office, GLOBAL 2000 and other member ...
September 20, 2023
The EU Commission's proposal to renew the authorisation for the herbicide glyphosate is published today (1). The proposal is for 10 years, so if a qualified majority of Member States agree, glyphosate...
September 12, 2023
85 social and environmental organisations urge Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission to hold true to the European Green Deal commitment to ensure that hazardous chemicals banned in the EU w...