Press releases
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...
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 ...