Thanks to the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, significant changes will be made to the national food legislation, including the regulation of providing information to consumers, in accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers. Adoption… » read more
Archives for Agriculture & Food
Poverty and inequality major ingredients in our food
June 25, 2018
New report shows why the planned EU ban on unfair trading practices is urgently needed Millions of women and men who produce our food are trapped in poverty and face brutal working conditions, despite billion-dollar profits in the food industry, reveals a new report published by Oxfam today. The report, ‘Ripe for Change’, also assesses… » read more
Posted by Oxfam's EU Advocacy office in Brussels
Guest blog post by Garlich von Essen, Secretary General, European Seed Association (ESA) and Petra Jorasch, Manager Plant Breeding & Innovation Advocacy, European Seed Association (ESA) The Advocate General takes a differentiated view when assessing the regulatory status of plants resulting from new breeding methods. The latest plant breeding methods like genome editing can help… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers |
The Drinking Water Directive revision
June 7, 2018
The report on the Drinking Water Directive is being debated in the European Parliament. The proposal must focus on consumer health protection. Dr Claudia Castell-Exner is the vice-president of EurEau, the association of Europe’s drinking water and waste water service operators. Today, the ENVI committee of the European Parliament is discussing the report on the… » read more
Posted by EurEau
Bioeconomy should focus on Meat
May 29, 2018
All economic activities related to research, development, production, trade and consumption of plants, animals and all other living things are defined as “bioeconomy”. Scientifically bioeconomy aims at producing economical gains by generating surplus values using new methods such as biotechnology with the targeted profits of improved health, increased productivity and higher quality in agricultural and… » read more
Posted by Nacikgoz
In EU law-making, cliché wins over science and facts
April 23, 2018
There is a kind of inevitability when the Commission uses its right of legislative and regulatory initiative. The more the process is framed by impact assessments, consultations and scientific opinions, the more the EU moves towards a subjective approach to law and regulation. Today, it is clichés, conventional wisdom and public opinion that rules in… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, commission, EU Commission, glyphosate |
Πολυεπίπεδη Διακυβέρνηση Ε.Ε.: Το Ελληνικό Γιαούρτι
April 16, 2018
Ανάλυση αποκλειστικών εγγράφων για το Ελληνικό γιαούρτι, συμπεριλαμβανομένου και του μπλοκαζ σχεδίου νομοθετήματος της Τσεχίας από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή, των απαντήσεων των Τσεχικών αρχών, και των επιστολών που ανταλλάχθηκαν μεταξύ της Ελλάδας και της Επιτροπής.
Posted by EU and Greece
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Social Europe & Jobs, Sustainable Dev. |
EU agriculture put to the test by fertilizers regulation?
March 29, 2018
Guest post by Helen Parker, Business analyst and legal advisor. After milk quotas, market fluctuations, EU-induced overproduction, free trade deals facing more competitive United States producers, and impossible red tape, EU farmers may be in for yet another challenge, with the possible introduction of very restrictive limits on the cadmium in their phosphate fertilizers, which… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Trade & Industry, Trade & Society |
The EU’s budget line for EU health action (‘the Health programme’) will be either dismantled and mashed into the ‘soup’ of the Single Market with other ingredients such as food safety, animal, and plant health or will remain a stand-alone programme which would be actually better for citizens. Here is why. Cooking a healthy EU… » read more
Posted by My European Civil Voice - Zoltán Massay-Kosubek @EU_ZMK
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Civil Society (NGOs), EU Priorities 2020, Health & Consumers, medicines, Public Health, Regional Policy, Roma |
Curing our medicinal ailment
January 22, 2018
The Dutch water sector believes that pharmaceutical residues should not be found in drinking water sources. Responsibility should be taken along the chain Around 10-15 years ago, the first research reports were published stating that surface water in The Netherlands contained pharmaceutical residues. The concentrations of these residues were extremely low.… » read more
Posted by EurEau
French Agriculture Policy: Having its Cake and Eating it too
January 5, 2018
French politicians and farmers are not happy about the EU’s plans to revamp the flagship, €58 billion-per-year Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by putting member states and regions in charge of allocating aid disbursements. Currently, France is the largest recipient of CAP payments, receiving 17% of all expenditures, and campaigners have claimed that a reduction in… » read more
Posted by The Euro Economy
Integrated thinking
December 22, 2017
Water and agriculture are inextricably linked but in Germany, there are water pollution problems caused by farming that must be urgently addressed The upsurge in land cultivation that has taken place over the past 60 years, coupled with the high use of fertilisers and pesticides and intensive mass animal farming, has led to significant… » read more
Posted by EurEau
Organic farming: progress in EU seeds and agricultural biodiversity
November 20, 2017
Guest blog post by Blanche Magarinos-Rey, Attorney at the Paris Bar Legislative discussions around the new regulation on organic farming have been going on for almost two and a half years. A record in the history of the European Union. The 18th and very long trilogue of 28 June 2017 ended the negotiations between the… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
RECENT CHANGES IN EUROPEAN SEED BUISNESS
November 15, 2017
Reweaving the support systems of world seed business in one paper , I found attitude of some EU countries quite interesting. In 1980’s, they have decided to support firstly those seed companies, working autogam plants, for 25 years. The state which provides credit, scientific consultancy, expert, infrastructure and hardware support in the legal arrangements, especially… » read more
Posted by Nacikgoz
Glyphosate: le scandale enfle
November 14, 2017
Post en tant qu’invité par Marcel Kuntz, directeur de recherche au CNRS Une tribune d‘Euractiv (https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/opinion/from-the-monsanto-papers-to-iarc-gate-a-glyphosate-story/) a déjà révélé les soubassements de la campagne d’interdiction du glyphosate. Ces faits, mis au jour en juillet 2017, ne semblent pas avoir touchés le personnel politique européen. Ont-ils besoin de plus d’éléments ? Eh bien justement, il… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Agriculture & Food, Better regulation, blogactiv, Health & Consumers |