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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe)
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🐝🌱🐞 We fight for a pesticide-free world. The primitive toxic era comes to an end. Sustainable agriculture can feed the world, with happy and healthy farmers and citizens. With biodiversity, clean water, healthy soil and good food.
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Heard rumours about Bayer/Monsanto stepping out of #glyphosate? Don't celebrate too soon. The company just joined the European Commission to defend the weedkiller in the EU court.

We challenge governments and chemical giants. Support us: www.pan-europe.info/great-glypho...
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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🐛✨ Meet tachypodoiulus niger – the millipede that keeps soil healthy! 🌿🌍
This millipede helps decompose dead plants by recycling nutrients into the soil. But the use of harmful #pesticides threatens these essential recyclers.
#SaveOurInsects
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November 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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🥕🍓🥦🍇 If Europe is serious about tackling cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses such as Parkinson’s, it must look at what’s on our plates. What we eat, and how our food is grown, plays a key role in our wellbeing 🍅🫑🥥🍏
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Promote pesticide-free food to face heart disease, cancer and Parkinson's
If Europe is serious about tackling cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses such as Parkinson’s, it must look at what’s on our plates. What we eat — and how our food is grown — plays a key ...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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The @ec.europa.eu's “simplification omnibus” review is a test: will it defend citizens’ health and Europe’s ecosystems, or yield to agrobusiness pressure and roll back #pesticide protections under the disguise of ‘simplification’?
Read our op-ed here: euobserver.com/eu-political...
Will pesticides be let off hook by EU 'omnibus' deregulation?
Better enforcement of EU pesticide use is not bureaucracy. It is what keeps Europe’s food, water, and people safe. More than 120 NGOs are urging the EU Commission to strengthen implementation of the b...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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📣📨 138 organisations urge @ec.europa.eu - in the context of the simplification omnibus on Food and Feed Safety - to boost ambition and protect citizens and the environment from harmful #pesticides 👶🥕🍏🐝🐦🦋💧
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130+ organisations urge von der Leyen to strengthen enforcement of EU pesticide law
138 civil society, scientific, water, and farming organisations across Europe have called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to fully enforce the EU Pesticide legislation. The open ...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Epoxiconazole is a fungicide that was banned in 2020. It is toxic to reproduction as it negatively impacts fertility, healthy pregnancy and babies, with concerns about causing cancer. Also, it is very toxic to aquatic life, birds and wild animals.
#StopToxicTrade #StopToxicExport #EndDoubleStandards
corporateeurope.org Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 21d
The EU banned epoxiconazole, but still produces it to export to the Global South!
It is a fungicide banned in2020, toxic to reproduction as it negatively impacts fertility, a healthy pregnancy, concerns to cause cancer, & very toxic to aquatic life, birds and wild animals.
Let's return it to sender!
October 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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📢 Today, EU lawmakers listened to citizens and science and rubber-stamped the deal on the Soil Monitoring Law, the EU’s first-ever law on soil health, after months of negotiations 🪱
@eeb.org @ecos.ngo
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European Parliament seals the deal of first-ever EU law on soils
Today, EU lawmakers listened to citizens and science and rubber-stamped the deal on the Soil Monitoring Law, the EU’s first-ever law on soil health, after months of negotiations. Despite severe shortc...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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🧑‍⚖️ Today, the General Court of the EU clarified in a judgement that EU Member States are required to demand toxicity data for co-formulants used in #pesticides.
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EU Court rules that Member States must fully assess toxicity of hidden pesticide ingredients (co-formulants)
Today, the General Court of the EU clarified in a judgement that EU Member States are required to demand toxicity data for co-formulants used in pesticides. The absence of such data in the pesticide i...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🪱🌱🥕 Ahead of the plenary vote, we urge MEPs to officially endorse the law. Given the dire state of our soils, an EU policy framework as common ground to protect them is urgently needed. Healthy, living soils are the basis of all life.
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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🇳🇱🚜 Dutch pesticide authority Ctgb once again ignores science and case law. The Dutch Ctgb is allowing a #pesticide containing an endocrine disruptor to be used.
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Spoedprocedure eist verbod op hormoonverstorend pesticide voor open teelten, Ctgb opnieuw in de fout
Het Pesticide Action Network vraagt in een spoedprocedure bij het College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (CBb) een verbod op gebruik van het bestrijdingsmiddel Pitcher met een hormoonverstorende st...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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#Soils host an immense amount of biodiversity 🪱🐝 and functions 💧🥕🌱. They are the basis of all life, and essential to our well-being. As they are degrading fast, due to #pesticide pollution and many other impacts, an #EUSoilLaw is long overdue.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Picoxystrobin was banned in 2017 due to its toxicity, which has severe ecotoxic effects on ecosystems and poses risks to consumers, as its residues can be genotoxic.

#StopToxicTrade #StopToxicExport #EndDoubleStandards
corporateeurope.org Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 28d
Today is #WorldFoodDay ! It happens that EU bans toxic pesticides... but then still exports them to all corners of the world. And that is ⤴️ ever more: 120.000 tons in 2024, so we decided to send them back to the Commission. They have been waiting 5 years to act & stop this unethical double standard!
October 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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🧑‍🌾While the @ec.europa.eu moves to weaken #pesticide rules, farmers across Europe are proving other ways are possible, producing healthy food without harming people or nature🌾
This #WorldFoodDay, see the real solutions in our new report with @foeeurope.bsky.social: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
New Report: Farming beyond Pesticides - Success Stories from the Field to celebrate World Food Day
Today, on World Food Day, PAN Europe and Friends of the Earth Europe publish a new report, showcasing farmers and municipalities successfully eliminating or minimising pesticide use. The impressive an...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Today, with @natprobe.bsky.social & @bblv.be, we have an important hearing in the Belgian Council of State: we ask them to put a stop to the recurrent practice of authorising #pesticides in leaky tunnels, while EU law imposes hermetic greenhouses to prevent any contact with the environment.
October 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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🇪🇺 The EU’s Agri & Food Vision proposes easier access to biocontrol as an alternative to harmful pesticides. However, real change means more than swapping chemicals. Biocontrol must be part of a system shift via #IPM. 🌱🪲
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Will the Commission’s plan to fast-track biocontrol miss the mark for pesticide reductions?
The European Commission’s Vision for Agriculture and Food proposes easing market access for biological control substances (biocontrol). PAN Europe welcomes more capacity for biocontrol risk assessment...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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PAN Europe calls on the @ec.europa.eu to use the “Food and feed safety – simplification omnibus” initiative not to weaken or delay existing protections, but to strengthen the implementation and enforcement of the EU #pesticide legislation.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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🚨 🌿Last day to ask for better protection of health and biodiversity 🚜🐝
Tell the @ec.europa.eu that you want better protection of health and biodiversity.
This tool makes it easy to react to the EU consultation: pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe...
Ban toxic pesticides now
Tell the EU you want better protection against pesticides With this tool you can tell the EU Commission that you want better protection of health and environment. Their plan is to please the chemical ...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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🐝🇷🇴 #Neonicotinoid derogations: First infringement procedure ever by the @ec.europa.eu against Romania for unlawful derogations against bee-toxic #insecticides.
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Romanian unlawful derogations for pesticides: European Commission launches its first ever infringement procedure
The European Commission recently announced [1] it was initiating an infringement procedure against Romania for granting derogations to bee-toxic neonicotinoid insecticides. This is the first time ever...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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📢📨 Three letters. One message.
We wrote to the @ec.europa.eu, @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu, @europarl.europa.eu & @eu2025dk.bsky.social asking them to stop exporting #pesticides banned in the EU.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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🚨🚜 Only one week left to raise our voice against the weakening of food safety rules 🐝🌿
Tell the @ec.europa.eu that you want better protection of health and biodiversity. This tool makes it easy to react to the EU consultation: www.pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe...
Ban toxic pesticides now
Tell the EU you want better protection against pesticides With this tool you can tell the EU Commission that you want better protection of health and environment. Their plan is to please the chemical ...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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With @organicseurope.bsky.social & @global2000.bsky.social, we lodged a formal complaint before the European Ombudsman concerning the @ec.europa.eu's reliance on the Harmonised Risk Indicator 1 (HRI1) to measure use and risk of #pesticides.
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Complaint to the European Ombudsman: EU Commission deceives citizens with flawed figures on pesticide reduction
Three NGOs, PAN Europe, IFOAM Organics Europe and Global 2000, lodged a formal complaint before the European Ombudsman concerning the European Commission’s reliance on the Harmonised Risk Indicator 1 ...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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👏 The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn the approval of 8 more #pesticides that contain #PFAS active substances. They can form and leach #TFA into the groundwater. Pesticides approved for use in 🇩🇰 must not pose a risk to groundwater.
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Denmark bans more PFAS pesticides to protect groundwater
The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn the approval of 8 more pesticides that contain PFAS active substances. They can form and leach TFA into the groundwater. Pesticides approved fo...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Rådet for Grøn Omstilling, in collaboration with us & Danmarks Naturfredningsforening, warmly invites you to join a conference on the occasion of Denmark’s EU Presidency.
🗓️ Thursday, 30/10/2025, 11:30 CET
📍 Proviantsalen, Christiansborg & online
👉 Register here: www.pan-europe.info/events/confe...
October 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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🌿🦋🐝💧🪱The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post 2027 should support farmers in the shift out of #pesticides.
👉 Read our reaction and key recommendations: www.pan-europe.info/resources/br...
October 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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The EU Pesticide Meeting’s somber agenda is overtaken by further delays of urgently-needed bans and extensions of the approval periods of several toxic substances. #PFAS #pesticides, endocrine disruptors, and reprotoxic substances are on the list.
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EU Pesticide Meeting: candidates for substitution are forever (chemicals)?
The European Commission and Member States are meeting on the 1 - 3 October this week. The SCoPAFF committee’s somber agenda is overtaken by further delays of urgently-needed bans and extensions of the...
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October 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM