As you will see in this activity report you are about to read PAN Europe has been more active than ever in 2013! Just to take one major exemple : on the crucial debate on EDCs our network has been on the forefront of civil society action, vigorously denouncing the fact that the Commission didn’t do its job on the defi nition of criteria and that EFSA even managed to add elements in its opinion which are not part of the Regulation 1107/2009 ! On the other hand, and on the positive side this time, the IBMA-PAN Europe joint symposium on Feeding Europe with less pesticides’ of December enabled us to show that alternatives to pesticides are largely available for producers ! This considerable work wouldn’t have been possible without the considerable involvement of all the staff, the Board and all the active members of PAN Europe. I want to pay a special tribute here to Isabelle Pinzauti who left PAN Europe a few months ago after having the responsability to start the EDC campaign for PAN Europe. A special tribute also for 2 former Board members Daniel Lesinsky and Valentina Lukova who left the Board after serving so effectively for many years. Many, many thanks to them for their disinterested work ! Of course I also have to gratefully acknowledge the valuable fi nancial support from the European Union allowing us to also focus on expanding our network and gather our members in the general assembly where we together set a work program for the years to come.