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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3h

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3h

Let’s stop this toxic trade together!
👉 Sign the petitions:
www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-...
www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl...

#StopToxicExport #EndDoubleStandards #PeopleBeforeProfits

Stop the export of toxic pesticides to African countries - Online petition

! If you don't have a zip code, please use the code 1234xx Some pesticides are carcinogenic, hormone-disrupting or impair fertility. Others are harmful to aquatic organisms, bees and pollinators or ha...

www.openpetition.eu

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3h

The EU massively exported this Mancozeb, a fungicide, even though it has been banned for the use in the EU since 2020. Mancozeb is an endocrine disruptor and toxic to reproduction, it so negatively impacts the thyroid, fertility, pregnant women and babies.

Please share the video! #StopToxicTrade

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3h

Europe bans toxic pesticides… but exports them abroad ! We decided to send them back to the European Commission !

This week, we are sending back to Ursula Von der Leyen and the Commission the third most exported banned substance from Europe to the rest of the world: #Mancozeb .

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3h

We wrote to the EU Commission, @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu , EU Parliament, and the @eu2025dk.bsky.social , our message is simple: stop exporting pesticides banned in the EU.

👉 www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

Renewed request for urgent action and meeting - End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition

Dear Commissioner Roswall, We, the undersigned organisations of the End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition, are writing to you once again to reiterate our call for the European Commission to fulfil its c...

www.pan-europe.info

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3h

Three letters. One message.

🎥 Watch “Return to Sender”, our message to President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu : If they’re too dangerous for us, they’re too dangerous for anyone.
#Mancozeb

#StopToxicExport #EndDoubleStandards

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 6h

Read more at #DeregulationWatch where you can also take action to fight proposals in another Omnibus (this time on food and feed) which threaten to weaken rules on food, feed safety, and pesticides.

corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 6h

Specifically he says: “there is a high risk that proposed Omnibus package on chemicals ... may negatively impact human rights, including rights to health & a healthy environment, reversing recent improvements & creating legal uncertainty for businesses that have already invested in compliance.”

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 6h

This week #DeregulationWatch reports on the powerful intervention by UN Special Rapporteur on toxics & human rights Marcos Orellana criticising the EU's Chemicals omnibus saying “there is no compelling justification” for the proposed measures.

#Deregulation

corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory

Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

🗓️ Join us on October 13th at 4pm
It is free, but you have to register via [email protected]

👟This is a physical tour of the European Quarter in Brussels,& it will take about 90min

These great photos are from out tour last month on the same topic, and were taken by @marcellablues.bsky.social

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

You have heard the EU bubble's new buzzword "deregulation" and you have no idea what it means?
Or even better, you know what it means and whant to know how to fight it?
That's why we joined forces with out friends at @lobbycontrol.bsky.social to create free lobby tour of Brussels about the D-word!👇

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Fossil fuel industry is behind the UK's CCS push, but while oil & gas firms are pro-CCS in public they're sceptical in private 😈 revealing the wider "strategy to lock in a policy model based primarily on incentives and subsidies without regulatory accountability or science-based emission reductions"

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 1d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

🚨 #PFAS pollution is not cheap, we pay the price with our health, environment and economy.

📣 Read our new manifesto: www.banpfasmanifesto.org/en/

@chemtrust.bsky.social
@eeb.org
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

🐳 Evidence has linked #PFAS exposure to #ForeverChemicals with harmful impacts on #wildlife, which could be linked to overall biodiversity loss.

👉 banpfasmanifesto.org/en/

#BanPFAS #StopPFAS

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

🚰 #PFAS pollution is a threat to our drinking water.

😰 Water is already under stress from climate change, and PFAS are adding to this pressure.

👉 www.banpfasmanifesto.org/en/

#BanPFAS #StopPFAS

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

📣 We have launched a new #PFAS manifesto
👉 www.banpfasmanifesto.org/en/

🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 chemicals and due to their longevity, pose a serious threat to human health.

🚫 A strict phase-out of all PFAS is the only way to protect current & future generations.

#BanPFAS #StopPFAS

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

Very important findings.

These results show that no one escapes #PFAS contamination & that a comprehensive ban is long overdue.

It's time to stand up to the #ForeverChemicals industry lobby.
Read more here: corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-...

Take action today: action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 3d

We're honoured the Forever Lobbying Project that Watershed was part of, led by @stephanehorel.bsky.social + in association with @corporateeurope.org has been nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of the European Parliament.

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The Forever Pollution Project, The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS Pollution on the environment, science and politics

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

The #foreverlobbyingproject was nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of the European Parliament!

🥂 It was an honour to be a part of this project, congrats to @stephanehorel.bsky.social and everyone involved.

WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 3d

We're honoured the Forever Lobbying Project that Watershed was part of, led by @stephanehorel.bsky.social + in association with @corporateeurope.org has been nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of the European Parliament.

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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 7d

Now Ursula von der Leyen speaks openly about deregulation. The economic case is weak, to say the least. Not to mention the commitments in the treaties to protection of workers, consumers and the environment. ("we all agree we need simplification, we need deregulation”) ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Speech by President von der Leyen at the Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit

The Commission has been in office for 9 months now. You know that we have prepared our term by asking Draghi and Letta to prepare their reports. And the diagnosis was absolutely crystal clear, also th...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 6d

📣 Yet another #Omnibus proposal has been announced and this time the target is food and feed safety, in particular #pesticides.
☠️ The pesticide industry wants to weaken current pesticide rules.
👉 Tell EU decision makers: No weakening pesticide laws!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/t...

Tell the Commission: no weakening of rules on food and feed safety, pesticides | Corporate Europe Observatory

Yet another Omnibus proposal has been announced in a ‘call for evidence’ by the Commission, to “reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining high standards”, and this time the target is foo...

corporateeurope.org

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Juliette Leroux @jujusg.bsky.social · 7d

Who has the many speeches where Ursula swore simplification was not deregulation? Was not last time just a month ago for SotUE?

Dropping the pretence, then, I see.

Screencap of President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen's instagram story.
Over a photo of Ursula with the EU Council, it reads:
"Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit.
Europe has strength. Europe has huge potential. But we need to unleash it.
We need simplification, we need deregulation, we need it at the European level, and we also need it at the national level."

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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · 7d

The mask is OFF 🎭 ! EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu admits that "simplification" actually means "deregulation" (surprise surprise - we've been saying this for a long time).

From her speech yesterday at the Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 7d

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 7d

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