Support the European Citizens’ Initiative to
BAN GLYPHOSATE
and Protect People and the Environment
from Toxic Pesticides
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and Protect People and the Environment
What is a European Citizens' Initiative?
A European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) demands that the European Commission propose legislation on matters for which the EU has competencies. An ECI must be signed by at least one million EU citizens with minimum thresholds reached in at least seven member states.
To take part in an ECI, signatories must enter their address details, date and place of birth, and also ID numbers (in some countries).
The Ban Glyphosate ECI
Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides
We call on the European Commission to propose to Member States a ban on glyphosate, to reform the pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use.
See ECI Objectives
ECI Objectives
Ban Glyphosate-Based Herbicides,
exposure to which has been linked to cancer in humans, and has led to ecosystems degradation.
Glyphosate is one of Europe’s most widely used pesticides, and its negative impacts on the environment and biodiversity are clearly documented. In addition, expanding scientific evidence demonstrates that glyphosate is also a serious threat to human health. EU Regulation 1107/2009 prohibits the use of pesticides when there is sufficient evidence in laboratory animals that these substances can cause cancer, based on IARC criteria. Therefore EU approval for glyphosate must be withdrawn.
Ensure that the scientific evaluation of pesticides for EU regulatory approval is
based only on published studies,
which are commissioned by competent public authorities instead of the pesticide industry.
Regulatory studies should be published in full and open to scientific scrutiny. The potential for conflicts of interest should be eliminated, by disconnecting contracting laboratories’ finances from the commissioning procedure, and by prohibiting pesticide producers from choosing which authority they charge and pay for the authorisation procedure.
set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets
for pesticide use,
with a view to achieving
A pesticide-free future.
EU Directive 2009/128/EC requires that pesticides should only be used when all other methods have failed, and mandates EU member states to establish concrete measures and objectives to reduce overall pesticide use. Member states are currently not sufficiently implementing the directive, and the European Commission has yet to evaluate its effect.
