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April 20 2008
Breaking the language barrier…
Several PAN Europe reports are now available in Eastern European languages. PAN Europe’s 2007 briefing,

Cut Back on Pesticides Bulgarian Translation

‘Cut Back on Pesticides for Healthier Lives’ has recently been translated into Bulgarian, Slovenian and Slovakian. Also available in Slovakian is PAN Europe’s overview of IPM potato production, ‘Potato Production: State of the art IPM and organic production systems in Europe’. PAN Europe’s report ‘Pesticide Use Reduction Strategies in Europe’ is being translated into French, while AWHHE’s Armenian IPM manual is now available in English.
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March 23 2008


	Francois Veillerette, President of MDRGF and Director of PAN Europe speaking at the media conference in the European Parliament on 26 March.

Message in a Bottle
PAN Europe publishes an analysis of pesticide residues found in wine. Working in collaboration with MDRGF, Greenpeace Germany, and Friends of the Earth Austria (Global 2000), PAN Europe purchased 40 bottles of wine from across the European Union and sent them to laboratories to be tested for pesticide residues. All 34 conventional wine samples analysed were shown to contain pesticide residues. On average over four different pesticides were detected in each bottle - with one sample containing 10 different residues.
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19 February
Counselling the Ministers
PAN Europe authors two policy briefings aimed at better informing the Council of Ministers - now charged with reviewing the Commission's proposed pesticides Regulation. The first analysis looks at the Commission's proposal to divide the EU into three authorisations zones - within which 'obligatory mutual recognition' would force each member state to authorise all substances approved by all other countries. The second paper aims to counter industry claims that the elimination of exposure to carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic and endocrine disrupting pesticides would impact on agricultural productivity.
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