Brussels, 24 -27 May 2011

Dr. Daniel Lešinský is a board member of the Pesticides Action Network (PAN - Europe) since 2006, the main mission of PAN – Europe is to eliminate or minimize negative impacts of pesticides in agriculture, gardening as well as in food production and consumption. We work in different areas – legislation, advocacy, information and practice at European as well as at national levels.  Daniel is a chair person of Centre for Sustainable Alternatives based in Slovakia. He finished university studies on ecology and environmental sciences on 1999 and his PhD on eco-toxicology and biodegradation of materials on 2003. Since 2003 he works also on agriculture policy issues and coordinates the national Slovak NGO platform for sustainable agriculture Agro-eko forum. Since 2005 he organizes number of life-long education courses for farmers focusing on agro-environmental measures, organic farming and integrated production. Finally, he is a member of the Monitoring committee of Slovak Rural Development Program 2007-2013 promoting a bit more sustainable distributing of EU subsidies for agriculture, food production and forestry in Slovakia.