Briefings
Making Ecological Focus Areas pesticide-free is the only way forward
Brussels, December 2016
‘Ecological focus areas should be established, in particular, in order to safeguard and improve biodiversity on farms’ Recital 44 of Regulation (EU) 1307/2013
The European Commission is proposing to ban use of pesticides in productive areas ofthe so-called Ecological Focus Areas as part of the simplification and streamlining exercise ‘greening after one year’. PAN Europe and its members welcome this proposalas a logical step to put biodiversity at the heart of EFAs and urge all MS to support it.
PAN Europe’s position on Commission's drafts proposals for EDC criteria
Commission’s second legal act on the draft EDC (Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals) criteria proposal discussed on 18th of November Standing Committee on Plans, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF), section phytopharmaceuticals.
PAN Europe's response on COM's EDC criteria (feedback mechanism)
Feedback mechanism of Commission’s Health Directory (DG Sante) on the proposed Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC) criteria published in June 2015[1].
PAN Europe's response
PAN Europe's comments on Commission's "negligible exposure" guidance document
Brussels
July 24th 2015
Comments on Commission’s DG SANTE “technical guidance on the interpretation of points 3.6.3 to 3.6.5, and 3.8.2 of Annex II of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, in particular regarding the assessment of negligible exposure to an active substance in a PPP under realistic conditions of use”.
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe).
PAN-Europe’s position on EDCs-Roadmap
The roadmap, as a regulatory tool, outlines the options considered by the COM to establish the criteria for the definition of EDCs in the context of ‘putting into force’ the Plant Protection Product Regulation (PPPR) and Biocide Products Regulation (BPR).
PAN Europe position paper on the US-EU trade talks: Profit for multinationals more important than healthy food and the environment?
