Health and Environment Alliance | Letters

Environmental health priorities for Croatia’s presidency of the Council of the European Union

17th January 2020

Croatia holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first half of 2020. In a letter to Croatia's prime minister Andrej Plenkovic, HEAL shared its priorities on how we consider the Presidency can help advance the protection of health from environment and climate threats in the next months, particularly regarding the EU Green Deal proposal.

Joint letter calling concrete clean air steps in European Commission’s 2020 Work Programme

14th January 2020

HEAL, together with 7 other health and environmental civil society organisations has today sent a letter to Executive Vice-Presidents Timmermans and Dombrovskis, and Commissioner Sinkevičius, to call on them to…

Open letter on the Farm to Fork strategy to achieve sustainable food systems

12th December 2019

People in the EU have made unprecedented calls for change throughout 2019, demanding climate action, environmental protection, improved animal welfare and social justice. Food systems are pushing us across 'planetary…

Dear Health Commissioner: Uphold the precautionary principle by supporting the French ban on E171 in food products

5th December 2019

NGOs comment on draft PFOA regulation

4th December 2019

A European Green Deal that strives for a healthy planet for healthy people is putting zero pollution and health protection at its core

4th December 2019

HEAL together with members called on the European College of Commissioners and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to translate the support they have expressed for environmental health protection during their parliamentary hearings into tangible and impactful policy proposals and legislation. Zero pollution and health protection need to be at the core of the Commission’s flagship European Green Deal. It is essential that the European Green Deal delivers on climate change, on clean air and on health protection from hazardous chemicals, including endocrine disrupting chemicals.

NGO letter to REACH Committee regarding lead stabilisers in PVC

15th November 2019

A chemicals strategy as part of the European Green Deal: time to deliver

8th November 2019

Health and environmental groups wrote to incoming Commission president Ursula von der Leyen today about the EU's golden opportunity to set out a long-term chemicals strategy that prioritises health and environmental protection under the European Green Deal.

Dear Minister: Voice your support to non-renewal of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl

30th October 2019

Exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos harms children's brains. Yet it continues to be one of the most commonly used pesticides in Europe. HEAL calls on all European health, environment and agriculture ministers to support the non-renewal of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl.

18 NGOs write to REACH committee ahead of potential vote on a restriction on tattoo inks and permanent make-up

1st October 2019

A tattoo can be an important means of cultural or self-expression and is popular among Europeans. 18 NGOs have written to members of the REACH committee regarding an proposal for a restriction on tattoo inks and permanent make up.

Will EU ministers support the ban of the pesticide chlorpyrifos?

25th July 2019

The governments of the 28 Member States of the European Union are in the process of deciding on the future of a health-harming pesticide: chlorpyrifos. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), together with other civil society organisations, has written directly to all environment, health and agriculture ministers to express their concerns about the toxicity of this substance.

36 organisations call for EU food policy and Vice-President for Food in open letter to EU Commission President

17th July 2019

HEAL’s environmental health priorities for next EU Commission President

15th July 2019

Ahead of a major vote in the European Parliament on the future European Commission President, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) sent its priorities to the candidate for President of the European Commission designated by the Council, the German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen.

For a green reform of the Common Agricultural Policy – Open letter to the EU Parliament Agriculture Committee

9th July 2019

The Coalition for Sustainable Food Systems and Integrated Food Policy - of which HEAL is a member - is calling on the EU Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) to conduct a fair and green reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

European Commission fails to publish outcome of a fitness check on Europe’s chemicals legislation

17th June 2019

Mere weeks before a high-level conference on the future of the European Union’s chemicals policy, the European Commission has not yet published the ‘raison-d’être’ for the event: the outcome of an evaluation of all chemicals policies except REACH.

33 organisations call for EU food policy and Vice President for Food – open letter to candidates for the presidency of the European Commission

9th May 2019

Thirty-three leading campaign groups, farming organizations, and think tanks have come together to call on the next European Commission President to put an EU food policy in place. Read our letter today.

55 civil society organisations asking for a Europe for well-being and health

9th May 2019

Civil society organisations demand the removal of E171 from the EU list of permitted food additives

7th May 2019

HEAL letter on EU Sibiu Summit

29th April 2019

NGOs urge immediate action to stop toxic recycling in the EU

24th April 2019

Leading European health and environmental organisations are urging governments to withdraw the Stockholm Convention recycling exemptions for persistent organic pollutants used as flame retardant chemicals.