Letters
Drawing attention to EFSA’s unscientific, biased, and flawed chemical cocktail policy. Towards the implementation of a Mixture Assessment Factor
Subject: Your cooperation with the European Food Authority EFSA on the risk assessment of chemical cocktails
Dear Mr. Ghebreyesus, Mr. Amoth and Mr. Cormann,
Bees at risk: abuses on derogations for neonicotinoids
Dear Vice-President Timmermans,
Cc. Commissioner Kyriakides,
Calling upon Member States to oppose the European Commission’s renewal proposal for Cypermethrin as candidate for substitution
To: Members of the PAFF committee – Section "Phytopharmaceuticals - Legislation"
Subject: EU Standing committee on pesticides (PAFF 21/22 October) – insecticide Cypermethrin – Calling upon Member States to oppose the European Commission’s renewal proposal as candidate for substitution
Dear Members of the Standing Committee PAFF,
Calling upon Member States to oppose the Flumioxazin European Commission’s renewal proposal
To: Members of the ScoPAFF committee – Section "Phytopharmaceuticals - Legislation"
Subject: EU Standing committee on pesticides (ScoPAFF 21/22 October) – herbicide Flumioxazin – Calling upon Member States to oppose the European Commission’s renewal proposal
Dear Madam/Sir,
INFO PAGE: European Citizens' Initiative "SAVE BEES AND FARMERS”
"Save the bees and farmers" is the name of an important and ambitious European Citizens' Initiative that collects signatures across Europe to make EU agriculture harmless to bees, by putting pesticides out of use. The goal of the initiative is to collect 1,000,000 signatures to compel the European Commission and the European Parliament to take further steps to remove pesticides from use in agriculture and to create models to support farmers in their transition to sustainable agriculture.
Your letters of 14 June 2021 concerning the Farm to Fork objectives and the substitution principle
Dear Ms. Roynel and Mr. Muilerman,
Thank you for your above-mentioned letters to Commissioner Kyriakides and Executive Vice-President Timmermans, who asked me to respond on their behalves. In your letters you urge the Commission to exclude any incorporation of the new EPPO standard PP 1/271 (3) ‘Guidance on efficacy aspects of comparative assessment’ from the envisaged revision of the principles for comparative assessment to be conducted for plant protection products containing active substances that are candidates for substitution.
Open letter to Commissioner Sinkevičius: The importance of making pesticide use one of the indicators in the Green City Accord
Dear Commissioner Sinkevičius,
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe is a Brussels based NGO working with its 45 national members to replace hazardous pesticides with sustainable, non-chemical alternatives. We are writing to you in all urgency regarding tomorrow’s workshop on the indicators for the European Green City Accord (GCA).
Lettre ouverte à Alexander de Croo : un lobbyiste de Phytofar au sein du cabinet de monsieur Clarinval, Ministre fédéral de l’agriculture
Letter : European NGOs support the initiatives in Switzerland to ban pesticides
Brussels, 12 May 2021 - Letter : European NGOs support the initiatives in Switzerland to ban pesticides
Letter available in English and in German.
Open letter to Commissioner Sinkevičius : Enhancing implementation of the European Biodiversity Strategy in European towns by using EU Green Capitals and Green Leaf awards as well as the Green City Accord
Dear Commissioner Sinkevičius,
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe is a Brussels based NGO working with its 45 national members to replace hazardous pesticides with sustainable, non-chemical alternatives. PAN Europe is in these first days of spring celebrating the Pesticide Action Week, aiming at raising awareness on the health and environment risks of chemical pesticides, highlighting and promoting alternative solutions, while building an international network for a pesticide-free world.