Highlights of first Agri-Fish Council under the Croatian Presidency. 1/ Prior to the presentation of the new Presidency’s priorities, the Council adopted the European Parliament’s position (PE 1195/19) on financial discipline from 2021 and flexibility between pillars for the year 2020. The regulation is aimed at ensuring the continuity of payments for farmers in 2020. […]
In a nutshell: -Views over the progress report on the Post-2020 CAP reform package —> At the opening of this last round of Council meetings under the Finnish Presidency, the Finnish Minister specified that this progress report on the reform was neither an exhaustive inventory of the positions expressed nor even the Council’s position for future […]
In November 2019, the European Council took a formal decision inviting the Commission “to submit, by 30 April 2021 at the latest, a study in the light of the judgment of the Court of Justice[…] concerning the status of new genomic techniques in Union law” and also, if necessary, a proposal on NBT’s. The said […]
The last few weeks have been marked by American sanctions that have particularly affected European wine trade. After an initial wave of surcharges, the US Bureau of Commerce announced its intention to tax European sparkling wine. World wine production, according to the OIV, is down from 294 million hectolitres to 263 million hectolitres in 2019. […]
PRESS RELEASE GLOBAL FOOD FORUM DEFINES ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN FOR A TRULY EFFICIENT CAP REFORM WITHIN THE GREEN DEAL “Shaping EU agriculture, rural areas and wealth for the next decades” Brussels, 10 December 2019 – The 4th edition of the Global Food Forum took place on the 2nd and 3rd of December at the […]
PRESS RELEASE THE 4TH EDITION OF THE GLOBAL FOOD FORUM ABOUT TO KICK OFF « Time to declare an economic, social and environmental emergency for EU agriculture » Brussels, 2 December 2019 – The fourth edition of the Global Food Forum (GFF2019), organised by Farm Europe takes place on this 2nd & 3rd December at […]
Whether only three of them meeting in an informal way or all gathered in the Council of the EU, the majority of the agriculture ministers of the Member States continue to plead for the maintenance of the budget of the CAP in the future Multiannual Financial Framework. On the side of the European Parliament, the […]
In a nutshell: -CAP Reform Package —> The Presidency recalled that delegations to the Council in July were mostly in favor of an increased environmental and climate ambition, accompanied by sufficient funding, a reduced administrative burden for all and a sufficiently flexible agricultural policy to take into account the specificities of MS. The Presidency therefore proposes […]
According to the Governance of the energy union and climate action rules, Member States are required to establish a 10-year Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) for the period from 2021 to 2030 in order to meet the EU’s new energy and climate targets for 2030. These Plans shall cover the five dimensions of […]
October was marked as follows: On the EU Council side, Ministers reiterated that none of the reform dossiers could be considered “closed” to date. On Parliament’s side, the Conference of Presidents has given the green light for a presentation of the reports of the reform in plenary at a date to set … The […]