Whatever the outcome of the vote on the Nature Restoration Law in Strasbourg tomorrow, the situation of extreme polarisation of the debate is already a major failure for Vice-President Frans Timmermans and his personal vision of implementing the Green Deal and Farm to Fork. Ultimately, it raises the question of a European Commission that claims […]
While the US debate over the similarities of CRISPR Crops to the ones in nature, and the Canadian government’s lack of transparency is being criticized, the EU and the Commission is willing to move forward on developing different regulations for NGTs with a proposal of regulation tabled on the 5th of July. Full note available at […]
Farm Europe welcomes the European Commission’s proposal on NGTs, which paves the way for innovation and research dynamism in the agricultural sector. However, this good proposal should not overshadow the weak additional impact study on the proposed regulation on the sustainable use of pesticides.
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has adopted its position on the proposed revision of the IED Directive. The thresholds adopted by MEPs are: 200 LU for pigs and poultry, 250 LU for mixed farms and 300 LU for cattle, with extensive livestock farming excluded. For the record, the EP’s Agriculture Committee had excluded ruminant livestock […]
The publication of the proposal for a « Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed » is scheduled for 5 July next, and the draft is circulating among the various DGs in an interservices procedure for final amendments before publication.
At a time when the vote on the Nature Restoration Law in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee has taken a dramatic turn, and was held against a backdrop of unprecedented campaigning, it is worth taking a peaceful look at this text to go beyond the simplistic pro- or anti-nature postures that have been asserted in the debate over the last few days, and understand what is at stake. This law is not the only initiative aimed at protecting biodiversity.
In recent weeks, the world of wine has been marked by : – The European Parliament vote to revise the system of protected geographical indications (PGIs), with the aim of preserving PGIs. This has strengthened the intellectual protection of wines. – The problem of stocks in the main wine-producing countries, in the face of falling […]
During May 2023, the European People’s Party took the lead in the EP in order to reject proposed regulation on nature restoration, citing concerns about food security and economic viability. It succeeded in achieving rejection of the proposed regulation in COMAGRI and in COMPECH. In the meantime, the European Parliament released a report emphasising the […]
Structural changes call for structural responses. It is very likely that new processing capacities will be needed in the EU to valorise an additional 10 to 14 million tonnes of grains from Ukraine. This new reality calls for a new dynamic to be given to the Green Deal.
In response to criticisms related to the complexity of the CAP, the European Commission has proposed the implementation of national strategic plans. This is a key feature of the new CAP, with serious impacts on the level playing field at EU level for farmers. The implementation of GAEC5 is shedding lights on this new reality.