Letters

Dear Members of the SCoPAFF committee,

On July 9th and 10th, 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 from pesticides. We kindly request that you give these matters your careful attention.

Dear Commission President von der Leyen,

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, write to you to share the attached statement signed by 600 civil society organisations, trade unions, and farmers’ groups across the globe. Together we call on the European Commission to finally act to end the production and export of toxic pesticides banned for use in the EU, as well as the import of food grown with these dangerous chemicals.

The EU has banned the use of a number of pesticides found to do serious damage to human health and the environment.

However, companies remain free to manufacture these hazardous pesticides in the EU for export to other countries with weaker regulations, putting human health and the environment at risk. The EU also allows the import of food and agricultural goods grown with pesticides banned on its own fields, exposing European consumers to cocktails of dangerous residues and creating unfair competition for European farmers.

Dear Ms. Gallina, 

Dear Chair of the Environment Council, Dear Environment Minister,

Dear Commissioner, Dear Chair of the Environment Council, Dear Rapporteur,

We, the undersigned civil society organisations working together to phase out the use of harmful pesticides in agriculture, are writing to you urging you to take stronger action to protect European’s water resources from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) - and especially trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) a common and very persistent metabolite of PFAS pesticides.

Les pesticides ont un impact majeur sur la santé. Il est donc essentiel que le ministre fédéral Frank Vandenbroucke (Santé publique) participe aux décisions sur les pesticides. Selon la loi belge, le ministre de la Santé publique dispose de ce droit. Mais, lors de la précédente législature, il ne l’a pas appliqué suite à un accord avec le ministre de l'agriculture. Les organisations de défense de la santé, de l'environnement et de la nature demandent au ministre d’assumer pleinement ce droit de codécision lors de la présente législature. 

Pesticiden hebben een grote gezondheidsimpact. Het is daarom essentieel dat minister Vandenbroucke (Volksgezondheid) mee beslist over pesticiden. Volgens de Belgische wet heeft de minister van Volksgezondheid dat recht. In de vorige regeerperiode paste de minister dat recht niet toe, door een afspraak met de minister van Landbouw. Gezondheids-, milieu- en natuurorganisaties vragen dat de minister dit medebeslissingsrecht wel opneemt.

Dear Mrs. Gallina,

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.