Letters

Letter to EU Ombudsman concerning Complaints 1570/2018/JF and 1973/2018/JF, and request for comments (January 2020)

Open Letter to Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Commissioners Stella Kyriakides, Janusz Wojciechowski and Virginijus Sinkevičius asking to prohibit the export of banned pesticides and the import of food produced with these chemicals
In November 2020, together with over 70 NGOs from all over the EU, PAN Europe sent a letter to the European Commission demanding it act to prohibit the export of banned pesticides and the import of food produced with these chemicals.

Open letter to Commission President Von der Leyen on the withdrawal of the Commission proposal for the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy

Letter to EU Health & Consumer Policy Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, concerning the phase-out of soil fumigants.

Open letter to the President of the European Commission, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament calling for full alignment of the reformed CAP with the European Green Deal

The Farm to Fork Strategy’s objectives on pesticides reduction cannot be achieved without a strong implementation of the substitution principle
Dear Commissioner Kyriakides,

Pesticide Action Network Europe’s reaction to COPA-COGECA attack on the overall pesticide use reduction targets in the biodiversity strategy

CSOs open letter on the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy: no further delays, keep April 2020 as publication date
To:
Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski
Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
CC: Anne Bucher, Director-General of DG SANTE (Health & Food Safety); Wolfgang Burtscher, Director-General of DG AGRI (Agriculture & Rural Development);
Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director-General of DG ENVI (Environment); Mr Bernhard Friess acting Director General for DG MARE (Maritime Affairs and Fisheries)