Letters

Dear Vice-President Timmermans, dear Commissioners Kyriakides and Wojciechowski,

We are writing to you in reaction to the attempt of severable trade associations to take advantage of the terrible Ukrainian war to challenge the existing EU food and feed safety standards.

Dear Ms. Kyriakides,

Subject: The reform of agriculture statistics (File 2021/0020 COD)

Subject: Your cooperation with the European Food Authority EFSA on the risk assessment of chemical cocktails

Dear Mr. Ghebreyesus, Mr. Amoth and Mr. Cormann,

Dear Vice-President Timmermans,

Cc. Commissioner Kyriakides,

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,

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,

"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.

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. 

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).