In 2021, PAN Europe put a lot of energy in making sure that the European Commission Green Deal was converted into a specific legislation including the objective of reducing the use and risk of pesticides by 50% until 2030 and the use of the more hazardous pesticides (the candidates for substitution) by 50% until 2030. While other players lobbied actively towards a much lower ambition, the 50% reduction target was kept in both the Farm to Fork (F2F) and the Biodiversity Strategies (BS), with the BS also calling for a full phase out of pesticide use in public areas by 2030.
At PAN Europe we invested a lot of resources in making the European Citizens Initiative Save Bees and Farmers a success. On 30 September 2021, we reached 1.18 million signatures, which should, after validation of the signatures by the Member States, lead to the validation of our ECI by the European Commission in the course of 2022.