Letters

May 2025

EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF); 14-15 May - position of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe

Dear Members of the SCoPAFF committee,

On May 14th and 15th, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss and potentially adopt opinions on several European Commission proposals. Ahead of this meeting, we would like to share PAN Europe's position on key issues concerning human health and environmental protection. We kindly request that you give these matters your careful attention.

April 2025

Message from the Bottle - TFA in wine

Dear Guilhem de Seze,

April 2025

Call for a ban of the PFAS active substance flutolanil and the withdrawal of national authorisations of PFAS pesticides

Dear members of the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed, 

April 2025

New study highlights the urgent need to withdraw the approval of all PFAS active substances

Dear Ms. Claire Bury, 

On behalf of PAN Europe, I am writing to share with you our latest report, Message from the Bottle, which reveals alarming levels of the “forever chemical” trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in European wines. These findings highlight the urgent need to phase out PFAS pesticides — a major source of TFA pollution, as it has been clearly established.

April 2025

Open Letter to Bayer Shareholders

Dear Sir or Madam,

In anticipation of Bayer’s AGM, we, civil society organisations from both sides of the Atlantic ocean and beyond, are writing to you regarding the company’s ongoing lobbying activities, in particular those deployed in the US at the expense of US citizens’ rights. In our view, these activities do not live up to Bayer’s own Code of Conduct, nor to general principles of corporate responsibility, such as the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management and the basic principles of the UN Global Compact.

April 2025

Open letter calling for swift adoption of updated EU water pollution standards

Dear Commissioner,

Dear Polish Representative to COREPER I,

Dear Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety,

April 2025

On the urgent need to reach a strong agreement on the Soil Monitoring Law during the political trilogue negotiations on 9 April 2025

Dear Commissioner Roswall, Dear MEP Decaro, Dear Deputy Permanent Representative Pluciński,

March 2025

EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF); 11-12 March - position of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe

Dear Members of the SCoPAFF committee,

On March 11th and 12th, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss and potentially adopt opinions on several European Commission’s proposals. Ahead of this meeting, we would like to share PAN Europe's position on key issues concerning human health and environmental protection. We kindly request that you give these matters your careful attention. 

February 2025

Neuroendocrine effects of the pesticide deltamethrin

Dear Ms. Gallani, dear pesticide experts,

With this letter, we would like to draw your attention to several key new scientific evidence studies on neurotoxicity caused by Deltamethrin insecticide. Despite EU’s obligation to review the new available scientific data every 10-15 years, the last review of this substance dates back in 2003. Considering the importance of the new scientific findings on brain development, we kindly urge you to take action and ban this substance.

February 2025

EU Court verdict on recent scientific insights in pesticide authorisations

Dear Director,

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