Hosted by Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), SumOfUs, Public Eye, The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), PAN Germany and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO).
Where: Residence Palace (Passage room) & Online Webstreaming
When: 1 December 2022, 09:15 - 12:30 CET
Language: English
Programme: The meeting will be chaired by Eva Corral & Martin Dermine
09:15 - 10:45 Session 1 The EU’s exports of banned pesticides and their impacts on importing countries
- Opening by the Chair Session 1, Eva Corral, The European Environmental Bureau, Senior Policy officer for Pesticide and Water pollution (5 mins)
- Introduction by Dr. Marcos A. Orellana, United Nations Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights (prerecorded video) (5 mins)
- “The impact of pesticides on farmworkers in Africa” (10mins)
- Mopholosi Morokong, IUF, Occupational Health and Safety Officer for Africa (online)
- “The EU’s-banned pesticide exports” (10 mins)
- “Main findings of a new study on exports of banned pesticides from Belgium” (5 mins)
- Jonas Jaccard, SOS Faim/Pesticide coalition, Advocacy Officer, Belgium
- “The voices of the impacted communities” (35 mins)
- Operação Amazônia Nativa (OPAN) (prerecorded video),
- Larissa Mies Bombardi, Researcher at the Department of Geography, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Fobi Miterand Asoh, Founder of NANNY Africa, Member of the One Health Network of Civil Society Organizations of Cameroon (ROOHCAM), Cameroon (prerecorded video)
- Ahmed Tiamiyu, Executive Director of Community Action Against Plastic Waste (CAPWs), Nigeria (prerecorded video)
- Dr. D. Narasimha Reddy, PAN India, Consultant, India (online)
- “Q&A session with participants” (20 mins)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 2 Why an EU ban on the export of banned pesticides and hazardous chemicals is needed and how to do it
- Opening by Chair Session 2, Martin Dermine, PAN Europe, Executive Director (5 mins)
- “Member States and export bans on pesticides and hazardous chemicals” (20 mins)
- Adrien Volant, deputy head of cabinet of Zakia Khattabi, Belgian Federal Minister for Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal, Belgium
- Crispin Dowler, Acting Co-Editor, Unearthed, The French pesticide export ban, UK (online)
- “NGOs Joint-Statement, time to put an end to double standards” (10 mins)
- “Petition EU: stop spreading banned chemicals!” (5 minutes)
- Eoin Dubsky, SumOfUs, Senior Campaign Manager
- “An EU-wide export ban, what is the European Commission planning?” (10 minutes)
- Patrick Child, Deputy Director General DG ENVI, European Commission
- “Closing remarks from Members of the European Parliaments (MEPs)” (10 minutes)
- Basile Ghesquiere, MEP Maria Arena's Assistant (S&D)
- “Q&A session with participants” (20 mins)
