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The European Commission has published a long-awaited ‘inception impact assessment’ on unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the agri-food supply chain, setting out a series of objectives and policy options aimed at improving farmers’ position in the supply chain.

Estonia is putting the focus on risk management under post-2020 CAP talks among member states during its six-month presidency of the Agriculture Council.

The European Commission is adopting implementing acts to provide aid in the form of advanced CAP payments to drought-hit member states, following a request for aid from Portugal, Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg. The Spanish and Portuguese delegations at the Farm...

The European Commission has come under fire from national ministers of agriculture for its joint paper with Brazil proposing a fresh approach to imposing multilateral limits on domestic agricultural support.

Switching to a co-financing system for direct aid payments under Pillar One of the CAP could reduce budgetary expenditure on the CAP by between €7.5 and €13.5 billion a year, according to new Agra Europe estimates. The scale of the...

The European Commission will carry out an impact assessment to gather an “exhaustive picture of imbalances in the food supply chain”, EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan and Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told the European Parliament’s agriculture committee (ComAgri ) today....

Los países del sur de Europa, que se han reunido en Santarém (Portugal), en la segunda ronda de contactos entre organizaciones agrarias de países mediterráneos con vistas a la futura reforma de la PAC 2020, han decidido unirse para hacer...

SENTENCIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE JUSTICIA DE LA UE El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE) determina que los productos puramente vegetales, como la leche de soja o la mantequilla de tofu, no pueden comercializarse bajo denominaciones como “leche”...

The Committee for Risk Assessment of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published and forwarded to the European Commission its final opinion on the harmonised classification of the herbicide glyphosate. ECHA announced today (June 15) that it had published and...

In two joint letters addressed to EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, representatives of the Chambers of Agriculture of the Visegrad countries strongly urge the European Commission to tackle unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the agri-food supply chain by setting up...

« A quand le "Make Production Great Again" ? » s’interroge la Fop dans un communiqué. La Fédération des producteurs d’oléagineux et protéagineux s’insurge contre le rejet, par les députés européens, d’une résolution visant à maintenir l’usage des produits phytosanitaires sur les...

La Commission européenne entend interdire l'usage des produits phytosanitaires sur les surfaces d'intérêt écologique, notamment sur les SIE productives utilisées pour la production de protéines. (©Terre-net Média) Mercredi 14 juin 2017, les députés européens se sont prononcés contre une résolution...

The incoming Estonian Presidency of the Council has revealed its priorities for the EU’s agriculture sector during its upcoming six-month term as Council President, prioritising making progress on a potential reform of the CAP post-2020. Estonia will take over the...

In an opinion adopted late last week (June 1), the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) called for preservation of the EU model of agriculture and family farming under the forthcoming review of the CAP, as well as closing of...

La Comisión de Recursos Naturales (NAT) del Comité de las Regiones ha aprobado un dictamen sobre "La PAC después de 2020", que plantea la necesidad de un mejor reparto de los fondos de la política agraria y alimentaria a partir...

Agriculture and environment MEPs have set out their wishes with respect to proposed new rules on organic and waste-based fertilisers, ahead of negotiations with the other Parliament committees working on the file. The EU executive lastyear proposed creating a regulation on organic...

MEPs have voted down the European Commission’s proposal to ban pesticides on so-called Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) under the ‘greening’ provisions of the CAP. The Parliament’sagriculture committee (ComEnvi) in a vote held in Brussels today (May 30)blocked the EU executive’s...

New rules for the EU’s fruit and vegetable sector are set to enter into force in seven days, after being entered into the EU’s Official Journal. Therules, which aim to simplify bureaucracy for producer organisations(POs) and give greater financial support...

The budget proposal, released on Tuesday (May 23) setsthe USDA budget at US$137 billion for the 2018 fiscal year, down by around 8%from the current level, and suggests removing, reducing or capping funding forareas such as crop insurance, rural ......

The European Commission’s agriculture and environment units are to establish a joint task force on water and have also asked the EU Joint Research Centre to establish a ‘Knowledge Hub’ to make existing water data available across the EU. ......

Commissioners Phil Hogan and Karmenu Vella presented a joint ‘staff working document’ on water in agriculture during the informal Council of EU farm ministers in Malta this week (May 22-23), which will feed into the reflections on the post-2020 CAP...

New EU organic sector legislation will likely contain no EU-wide threshold for decertification, sources have told Agra Europe at the Informal Council of Agricultural Ministers in Malta. Member states are once again working towards a renewed compromise text for a...

No dia 16 de Maio, no plenário do colégio de comissários, foi lançada uma questão sobre a autorização do glifosato.

EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan will next month co-present to MEPs a proposal on fairer regulation of the bloc’s food supply chain. Noticia completa com a subscrição.

 Selon les eurodéputés socialistes français Eric Andrieu et belge Marc Tarabella, la Commission européenne s’apprêterait à proposer au mois de juin un renouvellement d’autorisation du principe actif controversé du Roundup. La Commission européenne devrait proposer au mois de juin un...

The European Commission will be launching a call for experts for three new European Innovation Programme (EIP) agriculture focus groups this coming June, bringing the total number of such groups to 31.

The EU Parliament environment committee (ComEnvi) has adopted two resolutions opposing plans from the EU Commission to authorise imports containing an herbicide resistant genetically modified (GM) maize and cotton.

Nearly half of the responses to the European Commission’s recently concluded public consultation on modernising and simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy came from Germany.

Le règlement Omnibus voté par la commission agriculture du Parlement européen envisage d'assouplir les critères imposés pour les outils de gestion des risques, au premier rang desquels figure l'assurance récolte.  La Commission agriculture du Parlement européen a adopté, ce mercredi...

The European Parliament’s Agricultural Committee (ComAgri) has voted through a controversial draft opinion on changing CAP rules that introduces bargaining organisations for farmers and softens greening requirements.

Tras el cierre del período de 12 semanas de consulta pública sobre modernización y simplificación de la Política Agrícola Común en la medianoche del 2 de mayo de 2017, las cifras preliminares indican que la Comisión Europea ha recibido más...

El Grupo de Innovación Sostenible para el Sector Alimentario (GIS), foro de trabajo que promueve la innovación práctica aplicada a la agroalimentación, pretende participar también en el debate que ahora comienza sobre la futura Política Agrícola Común (PAC) reclamando un...

Canada is expected to ratify the EU-Canada Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) this month, meaning that the trade deal would provisionally enter into force in June. Sources told Agra Europe that theterms of the CETA are currently undergoing the ‘Third...

 As a three-month consultation on EU agriculture policy draws to a close, umbrella EU farm lobby Copa Cogeca has finalised its position on the future CAP – calling for simpler rules, support for cooperatives and more effective tools for managing...

Les semis des cultures de printemps se déroulent dans la poussière en ce mois d'avril comme en témoignent les photos postées par les agriculteurs sur les réseaux sociaux. Quant aux cultures d'hiver, le manque d'eau nuit à leur bon développement....

The European Commission will next week debate the merits of re-authorising the world’s most widely used herbicide, glyphosate, for a period of either 10 or 15 years. EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogantold Agra Europe today (April 21)that the College of...

El sector energético deberá satisfacer una demanda de energía en aumento al tiempo que reduce sus emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. La undécima edición del congreso internacional de bioenergía, organizado por avebiom, mira hacia el futuro bajo el lema...

The European Commission is set to review the EU’s system of excise duties on alcoholic beverages. The EU executive announced the launch of a publicconsultation today (April 19), set to run until July 7. Notícia completa mediante a subscrição.  

The 2013 CAP reform createdthe annual Crisis Reserve, which sets aside funds from direct payments underthe ‘financial discipline’ mechanism from the previous marketing year, to beused if emergency measures are needed.

The European Commission looks set to re-authorise the world’s most widely used herbicide, glyphosate, for a period of “at least” 10 years, it has emerged. Speaking yesterday (April 11) at a conferenceat the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), EU...