Letters

Dear EU Heads of State and Government,

Ministries of Agriculture,

Ministries of Environment,

Ministries of Health

With this letter we, a coalition of Civil Society Organizations engaged in protecting human rights, human health and the environment, are asking you to give priority to the right of all human beings to live in a healthy environment and have a healthy future, inside and outside Europe. 

Dear Deputy Permanent Representatives,

We, the undersigned coalition of NGOs from the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), are writing to draw your attention to the concerning findings from our survey on water contamination by trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) across ten EU countries. Our report, published on May 27, 2024, highlights alarming levels of TFA, a highly persistent and widely unregulated ‘forever chemical’, in both surface and groundwater samples.

Dear Ambassador,

On behalf of the undersigning organisations, we are writing to you to urge you to reject proposals to further weaken the Commission’s proposal to update the lists of priority pollutants of surface and groundwater, and to use the ongoing limited update of the chemical aspects to make substantial changes to basic principles of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), thus undermining the fitness check evaluation of the WFD and resulting in delayed action on tackling water pollution.

Dear members of the PAFF committee,

On 22 and 23 May, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss and/or adopt opinions on several proposals of the European Commission. In advance of this meeting, please find below PAN Europe's position on certain issues that relate to the protection of human health and the environment, for which we kindly request your particular attention.

Dear Minister,

I write to you on behalf of PAN Europe in view of the ongoing negotiations on the Commission’s proposal for a Soil Monitoring Law. Given the significant shortcomings of the Commission’s proposal, and the highly concerning weak position adopted by the Parliament on 10 April, we would like to ask you to support an ambitious position, which can effectively lay the ground for healthy soils in Europe by 2050.

Dear Guilhem de Sèze,

Regulation (EU) 1107/2009 on pesticides mentions that greenhouses are systems that prevent the release of pesticides into the environment (art.3(27)). As EFSA is aware, PAN Europe has initiated a legal procedure before the General Court of the EU on the reply from the European Commission to our Request for Internal review on the reapproval of abamectin.

Our society’s relationship with the nature that sustains it is fundamentally broken. Despite the growing evidence of looming ecological collapse and the alarming acceleration of the climate crisis, European governments and EU politicians are currently blocking new measures to protect nature and tearing up ones already in place.

Dear Mr. Bernhard Url,

Dear Health Commissioner Ms. Kyriakides,

Dear members of the PAFF committee,

On 22 and 23 April, you are invited to the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed to discuss the European Commission's proposal to lower all the MRLs of thiacloprid (C.05). We ask you to support this proposal and to speed up its adoption. Citizens in the EU and beyond as well as the environment urgently need to be protected from this very harmful substance.