EU livestock sector : the COMAGRI supports the conditions for a profitable and sustainable future 

Farm Europe warmly welcome today’s adoption by the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI) of the report by MEP Carlo Fidanza on “how to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?”.

This vote represents a significant step forward in promoting a resilient, competitive, sustainable and diverse EU livestock sector. 

Farm Europe particularly stresses the report’s call to bring back production as a core policy orientation, taking into account the diversity of our models and the ambition to keep production all across the EU. The focus on performance by fully optimising the positive benefits of livestock farming and on investments to prepare for the future should also be a core political orientation to be reflected in the up-coming EU livestock strategy. . 

The EU must remove economic and regulatory barriers to revive investment in livestock farming through a comprehensive plan that enables large-scale modernization of the sector, implements a genuine decarbonization strategy, promotes genetic improvement, and encourages quality initiatives that meet consumer expectations. 

The decline in production and decapitalization is not irreversible; rather, these trends must be reversed. The sector should be recognised for its role in providing healthy, balanced nutrition and for its environmental contributions, including pasture management, while being supported in reducing emissions through targeted investments in genetics, nutrition, infrastructure, and the use of effluents for biogas and biofertilizer production.

We now urge the European Parliament to confirm this positive signal in plenary. A strong endorsement will lay essential groundwork for the upcoming Livestock Strategy announced by the European Commission for June 2026.