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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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📈 Together with @organicseurope.bsky.social and @global2000.bsky.social, we lodged a formal complaint before the European Ombudsman concerning the Commission @ec.europa.eu 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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January 5, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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🧑‍🌾 The EU Commission promised a law to stop the export of #pesticides banned in Europe. Exports are on the rise. The ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ launched the ‘Return to Sender” campaign to hold the European Commission to account.
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Return to Sender: toxic EU trade in banned pesticides should end
‘Return to Sender’ is a new campaign launched today by the European coalition ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ (1)  to hold the European Commission to account for letting the exports of banned, t...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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🎆 PAN Europe wishes you a very good pesticide-free year!
December 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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🐞 In the ‘State of the Union’ to the Parliament, EU President Ursula von der Leyen preaches deregulation to please the industry. We urge the EU to take care of European's health and biodiversity instead of placing corporate profits above people and nature.
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State of the Union: weakening pesticide rules despite damage to health and environmental collapse
In the ‘State of the Union’ to the Parliament, EU President Von der Leyen preaches deregulation to please the industry. The EU should take care of European's health instead of backtracking on environm...
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December 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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🥤 The German Environmental Aid asked the German authorities to revoke the authorisation of the pesticide products Banjo, Brodal and Luna Experience. The products contain #PFAS #pesticides that break down to #TFA, which can be toxic to reproduction.

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Deutsche Umwelthilfe takes legal action against three TFA forming pesticide products
The German Environmental Aid (DUH) has asked the German authorities to revoke the authorisation of the pesticide products Banjo, Brodal and Luna Experience. The products contain PFAS pesticides that b...
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December 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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🧑‍⚖️ The Dutch Ctgb ignores rulings by the European Court of Justice. The agency decided to extend the authorisation of the #pesticides Dagonis and Pitcher. We have lodged an appeal against the decisions.

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CTGB gaat opnieuw grof de fout in bij beoordeling pesticiden
Het CTGB negeert arresten van het Europees Hof van Justitie, uitspraken van het College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven en recente inzichten van de Europese voedselautoriteit EFSA. De instantie besl...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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🌲 PAN Europe wishes you a very nice pesticide-free Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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🌱 The EU has banned the #PFAS #pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health and contaminates groundwater. Yet, it will continue to be used on Europe’s crop fields for up to 18 months, according to the official EU decision.
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PAN Europe and DUH object to 18 month ‘grace’ period for Flufenacet - Banned for its toxicity to children’s development and water pollution
The EU has banned the PFAS pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health and contaminates groundwater with its breakdown PFAS product, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a smaller but still toxic...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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🧑‍⚖️ The @EU_Commission is dragging its feet to act on #PFAS #pesticides. We have taken the first legal steps to remind the Commission that they have to meet the legal obligations under EU law to protect groundwater and public health.
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PAN Europe demands EU Commission to act on PFAS pesticides
PAN Europe is calling out the European Commission for its inaction on PFAS pesticides. These substances break down into trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a highly persistent, mobile and toxic degradation pr...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🎄 In many countries, people decorate their houses with Christmas trees. Cosy for happy family and friends meetings. But did you ever consider to look for a #pesticide-free tree?

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We wish you a pesticide free Christmas
In many countries, people decorate their houses with Christmas trees. Cosy for happy family and friends meetings. We hope you’re one of the lucky people who can enjoy this. But did you ever consider t...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Major victory 🥳Today, the Court of Justice of the EU concluded that the @ec.europa.eu acted unlawfully by re-approving toxic insecticide cypermethrin in 2021, with major gaps in the reapproval dossier. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
EU highest Court declares toxic insecticide cypermethrin illegally re-approved by the European Commission
Today, the Court of Justice of the EU concluded that the European Commission acted unlawfully by re-approving cypermethrin in 2021, with major gaps in the reapproval dossier, by relying on unscientifi...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The @ec.europa.eu confirms its plan for open-ended approvals of certain #pesticides, ignoring scientists and society. It's a weak move in the wrong direction. We need real steps out of the toxic era towards a productive, healthy and biodiverse future.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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No future for sustainable farming in #CAP.  @EU_Parliament vote just wiped out environmental provisions. Reckless deregulation directs taxpayers money to Big Agri, funding #pesticide-intensive and other harmful practices. Farmers health and the environment suffer.
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A coalition of leading scientists calls on the @ec.europa.eu to improve the protection of the environment, biodiversity and citizens' health against harmful #pesticides. They ask the Commission to drop the idea of weakening the pesticide regulation.
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EU Omnibus: Leading scientists from many disciplines call for better -not weaker- protection against pesticides
A coalition of leading scientists from many countries call on the European Commission to improve the protection of the environment, biodiversity and citizens' health against harmful pesticides. A lett...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Big Agri and Food Businesses built a system where fresh produce is intensely sprayed with #pesticides & cheap junk food is all around. The diets they profit from are harming our environment and health, while public health costs explode.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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❗️ Red Alert❗️ EU Commissioner Varhelyi proposes to weaken the #pesticide regulation. Eternal permits for pesticides, no more periodic evaluations. Health and environment will suffer, industry will profit.

📝 React now, tell the EU Commission what you think: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
End The Toxic Pesticide Age
Do you want healthy food for you and your children? Do you care about biodiversity and clean water? Beware! The European Commission is currently proposing a series of measures to massively deregulate ...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🪱🍎 Happy #WorldSoilDay 🥕🐞
Let's celebrate #soils & all farmers phasing out #pesticides to protect them. Soils, the foundation of our subsistence, host an incredible amount of life. Yet, they are degrading fast, with pesticides a major cause.
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Let’s celebrate World Soil Day: Protect soils against pesticides!
Today is World Soil Day. That is important, given the fact that soils have been, for a long time, largely overlooked. The official World Water Day has been celebrated since 1993. The first official Wo...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Everyday cereal products across Europe contain high levels of the forever chemical #TFA, our new PAN Europe study reveals. #TFA is an ultra-short #PFAS and a breakdown product of other PFAS, including PFAS #pesticides.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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📣 NEWS! Last week a key paper defending #glyphosate, ghostwritten by #Monsanto (now #Bayer), is retracted after undermining safety decisions for 25 years!

👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market.

😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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On this World Pesticide Day, we launch a campaign for better protection against dangerous #pesticides. No deregulation, but better implementation. Towards a toxic pesticide-free age.
📝 Write to the EU Commissioners: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
#NoPesticidesUseDay #Bhopal40
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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📦 Today, 75 boxes of EU-banned #pesticides were returned to the @ec.europa.eu in Brussels.

🗺️ From Brazil to India, Indonesia to South Africa, citizens sent a clear message: toxic exports must stop.

#ReturnToSender

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“Return to Sender”: Citizens deliver banned EU pesticides back to Brussels
Civil society groups from around the world have come together today to denounce the European Union’s toxic double standards. In a symbolic action in front of the European Commission in Brussels, campa...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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A new study from the German Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research @ufz.de uncovers something troubling: even very small amounts of commonly used #pesticides can significantly change how bees and fish behave.
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Pesticides change how bees and fish behave - And why that matters for all of us
A new study from the German Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) uncovers something troubling: even very small amounts of commonly used pesticides can significantly change how bees and fi...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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🇧🇪🧑‍⚖️ The Belgian Council of State ruled illegal three authorisations granted to abamectin-based #pesticides, an insecticide highly toxic to the environment and suspected of being genotoxic to humans.
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Belgian court cancels 3 illegal prolongations of pesticides in Belgium
On 20 November, the Belgian Council of State ruled illegal three authorisations granted to abamectin-based pesticides, an insecticide highly toxic to the environment and suspected of being genotoxic t...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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In collaboration with MEP @juttapaulus.bsky.social, we warmly invite you to join the webinar “Urban surface water pollution - The overlooked threat”.
📅​ 10 December 2025 at 10:00 CET​
📍​ Online​
👉​ Register here: www.pan-europe.info/events/confe...
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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📢 In 2024 alone, the EU exported 120,000 tonnes of banned #pesticides. If they’re too dangerous for Europe, they’re too dangerous for everyone.
📦 Join us as we return them on 📅 2 Dec at 09:00 in front of the European Commission.
#ReturnToSender #StopToxicExports
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM