This is an announcement for the paper “Weakly compact sets and weakly compact pointwise multipliers in Banach function lattices” by Karol Lesnik<https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Lesnik%2C+K>, Lech Maligranda<https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Maligranda%2C+L>, Jakub Tomaszewski<https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Tomaszewski%2C+J>. Abstract: We prove that the class of Banach function lattices in which all relatively weakly compact sets are equi-integrable sets (i.e. spaces satisfying the Dunford-Pettis criterion) coincides with the class of 1-disjointly homogeneous Banach lattices. A new examples of such spaces are provided. Furthermore, it is shown that Dunford-Pettis criterion is equivalent to de la Vallee Poussin criterion in all rearrangement invariant spaces on the interval. Finally, the results are applied to characterize weakly compact pointwise multipliers between Banach function lattices. The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08164