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November 9, 2018
In many European countries the food market is highly concentrated and dominated by a small number of supermarket companies. Often, products have made long journeys before being sold and have not been produced nearby. Is this system healthy for consumers? Is it economic for producers? And how do these production patterns affect the environment? Lately,… » read more
Posted by DIESIS
October 30, 2018
In this article I want to take a really broad look at how continuous innovation in the starch industry is contributing significantly to tackling some of the biggest challenges in sustainable agriculture and bioeconomy in Europe. Guest blog post by Jamie Fortescue, Managing Director at Starch Europe. The planet faces more and more environmental pressure.… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
July 25, 2018
Author: Vicky Marissen A task force of ‘common sense’ On 10 July, the report of the Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and ‘Doing Less More Efficiently’ was published. Set up at the end of 2017, the taskforce’s objective was to make recommendations on how better to apply the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, identify policy… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, industry, InfoSociety, lobbying, Sustainable Dev. |
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
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 |
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
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
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 |
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. |
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 Hungarian-European Citizen
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Civil Society (NGOs), EU Priorities 2020, Health & Consumers, medicines, Public Health, Regional Policy, Roma |
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
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
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
