Letters
Call for a ban on hazardous pesticides and their residues in European food products: thiacloprid and other reprotoxic pesticides
Dear Commissioner Kyriakides,
The attack of the Commission on the environmental conditionality of the CAP is undemocratic, outrageous, and threatens the legitimacy of the CAP
Dear Member of the European Parliament,
Support the first EU Soil Law
Dear Member of the European Parliament,
We are writing to you in view of the Plenary vote on the Soil Monitoring Law on 10 April. Although we strongly regret the lack of binding targets, mandatory plans and very weak provisions regarding soil management, we would like to ask you to support the first EU Soil Law and the compromise amendments reached in the Environment Committee. Your vote will be essential in taking a first step towards healthy soils in Europe.
The attack of the Commission on the environmental conditionality of the CAP is undemocratic, outrageous, and threatens the legitimacy of the CAP
Dear Ms Ursula von der Leyen,
Dear Mr Janusz Wojciechowski,
Dear Mr Virginijus Sinkevičius,
Civil society organisations urge the Council of the European Union to strengthen EU water legislation to protect European waters and citizens from pesticide pollution
Dear Permanent Representative,
EU Standing committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed - 20-21 March - position of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe
Dear members of the PAFF committee,
On 20 and 21 March, 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.
Joint letter to the EU Commission to reconsider the loosening of the CAP’s green architecture
We, the undersigned European coalitions 1 and civil society organisations, who work every day for an agroecological and fair transition toward sustainable food systems, including a better Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in line with the European Green Deal, are deeply concerned by the latest measures taken by the European Commission and the recent announcements made by both the EC and the Belgian Presidency of the Council regarding the green architecture of the CAP.
Nature-based water resilience cannot wait
Dear European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen,
We are writing to you as a group of stakeholders, united by our concern for healthy freshwater and marine ecosystems, to express our regret at the decision to delay the EU Communication on water resilience.
Joint call for food system transformation and a legislative framework for sustainable food systems in the next mandate
Dear President von der Leyen,
We, the undersigned organisations, are urging you to call on the next Commission to make the transition to sustainable food systems a high political priority. The next Commission must uphold a holistic food systems approach to policy-making, relying on a multi-DG governance structure, and bring forth the long-awaited proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems.
European citizens face increasing exposure to cocktails of PFAS pesticides through their food - Urgent call to ban PFAS pesticides in the European Union (UE)
Dear Commissioner Kyriakides,
With this letter, PAN Europe would like to bring to your attention the concerning findings of our report about PFAS pesticides in EU food ‘Toxic Harvest: the rise of forever pesticides in fruit and vegetables in Europe’ published yesterday. We urge you to take immediate action to address this source of PFAS exposure safeguarding the health of citizens and our environment.
