On 9-11 June 2005, a workshop on "Environmental impacts on congenital disease" was held in Kos island (Greece), organised in the framework of the AREHNA project [1]

EPHA Environment Network President, Marie Christine Dewolf, presented the NGO point of view on environmental congenital diseases highlighting the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic and the need of developing integrated health and environment monitoring systems.

Catherine Wattiez, PAN Europe Pesticides Use Reduction in Europe campaigner and EEN member, defined the links between pesticides and congenital diseases with a presentation entitled Links between in utero exposure to pesticides and effects on the human progeny: Does European pesticide legislation protect health?.

All the presentations can be downloaded from the workshop website and constitute the basis for contributions to a book to be published in 2006 by Springer Verlag publishers with a foreword by Frédérique Ries, Belgian Member of the European Parliament, rapporteur of the February 2005 own initiative European Parliament Resolution criticizing the European Environment and Health Action Plan.