Letters
EU Standing committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed - 11-12 July 2023 - position of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe
Dear members of the PAFF committee,
On 11th and 12nd July, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss and/or adopt opinions on several proposals of the European Commission. In advance of this meeting, please find below PAN Europe's position on certain issues that relate to the protection of human health and the environment, for which we kindly request your particular attention.
Neurotoxicity of pesticides
Dear Commissioner Kyriakides,
With this letter, we would like to express our concerns regarding the regulation of neurotoxic pesticides in the EU and request upon you to take action. Pesticides-related neurological diseases are rising in the EU (Parkinson's, autism, etc.), and specialists have raised alarms of an upcoming “Parkinson's epidemic”1 . At the same time, scientific knowledge is evolving rapidly and therefore regulatory actions on the side of the Commission are urgent.
Reaction to the IPM compromise chapter of the Swedish Council presidency on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation (SUR)
Dear Ministers,
10 demands to urgently address shortcomings and flaws in the EU pesticide authorisation system
Dear Commissioner Kyriakides,
We, the 83 undersigned civil society organisations, are writing to you to ask you to respond urgently to the unfulfilled requests from the European Parliament to improve the current pesticide authorisation system in Europe and ultimately ensure the high level of protection that EU law requires.
Yes to the Green Deal. No to the suspension of the CAP's environmental requirements
Dear President of the European Commission Ms. Ursula von der Leyen,
we, the below-mentioned organisations, are writing to you to ask to ensure a proper implementation of the Green Deal objectives and to maintain the high level of ambition, as presented to citizens in the beginning of your mandate. We particularly ask you to reject any additional request 1 to derogate to environmental requirements provided by the Common Agriculture Policy Regulation (EU) 2021/ 2115, as was done in 2022 and 2023.
Reaction to EPP’s withdrawal from the democratic negotiation process of the Nature Restoration Law: a People’s Party?
Dear members of the European People’s Party,
We write to you to express our deepest concerns regarding your announcement to withdraw from the negotiations on the planned Nature Restoration Law (NRL). The core values of EPP show understanding of the need to safeguard nature and “to transmit the beauty of the world” to protect human well-being.
Publication of the EC proposal for the Soil Health Law to set the EU on an effective pathway towards healthy soils by 2050
Dear Executive Vice-President, dear Commissioner,
Call for a strong pesticide regulation and nature restoration law to protect people’s health, the environment and long-term food security
Dear members of the European Parliament's AGRI Committee,
Dear members of the European Parliament’s ENVI Committee,
Request for a meeting on New Genomic Techniques: Time to shift to evidence-based decision making for sustainable food systems and nature
Dear Executive Vice-President,
As Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal we, the undersigned 300+ organisations, call on you to intervene and prevent the far-reaching deregulation of new genomic techniques at the expense of nature and the climate, and of farmers’ and consumers’ rights. We note with great concern that arguments in favour of deregulating new genomic techniques (NGTs) are often put forward without relevant evidence by DG Sante, especially when it comes to sustainability claims.
