PAN first worked on and presented the concept of Prior Informed Consent (PIC) to the UN FAO and UNEP in 1985. The PIC meant that a pesticide cannot be exported to any country without its consent and without sharing information. In 1989, the FAO and UNEP finally incorporated PIC into the International Code of Conduct on the Use and Distribution of Pesticides. It was PAN’s first success at international advocacy. The report “Violating the Pesticide Code,” which monitored pesticides use in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, was used to lobby for the inclusion of PIC into the Code.
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