Recently added articles from Europe Agri:
AGRICULTURE : COMMISSION DOES NOT GIVE IN TO MILK PRODUCERS' ANGER.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Despite repeated protests by milk producers, the European Commission does not intend to call into question the milk sector reform decided last year as part of the health check' of the Common Agricultural Policy, which gradually increases quotas before their abolition in 2015. After ...
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS : MOVING TOWARDS A THOROUGHLY REVAMPED EP AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Several members of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture (AGRI) are to desert its ranks. Its chairman, Neil Parish (EPP, centre-right, UK), will no longer be a part of it. He did not stand. The same goes for his very active vice-president, Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zy ...
AGRICULTURE COUNCIL : AGREEMENT ON IMPROVEMENT OF SLAUGHTER CONDITIONS.
Jun 26, 2009 ... The Union's agriculture ministers adopted, on 22 June in Luxembourg, a draft regulation aimed at improving animal welfare conditions at the time of slaughter. The new standards will apply from 1 January 2013, rather than 2011 as sought by the European Commission. They will replace the ...
AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK : AGRICULTURE MORE RESILIENT TO GLOBAL CRISIS THAN OTHER SECTORS.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Because food is a basic necessity, the agriculture sector is showing more resilience to the global economic crisis than other industries. But the risks could increase if the economic downturn deepens, according to a new report by the OECD and FAO releasedon 17 June. Falls in ...
DAIRY PRUDUCTS : COMMISSION DOES NOT GIVE IN TO MILK PRODUCERS' ANGER.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Despite repeated protests by milk producers, the European Commission does not intend to call into question the milk sector reform decided last year as part of the health check' of the Common Agricultural Policy, which gradually increases quotas before their abolition in 2015. After ...
DEROGATIONS ON FREE MOVEMENT OF PETS.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Finland, Ireland, Malta, Sweden and the United Kingdom may be allowed to impose transitional health requirements, until December 2011, for the control of rabies, worms and ticks for animals travelling with their owners to their territory. The European Commission proposed the derogation on ...
BIOTECHNOLOGY : EFSA DIVIDED OVER RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH GM POTATO AMFLORA.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Doubts have been cast about the possibility that the European Commission will soon authorise the cultivation of the genetically modified Amflora potato being. 'Two members of the (scientific committee) have expressed a minority opinion' on the conclusion according to which this ...
AGRICULTURAL AIDS : EU SUES GERMANY OVER BAVARIAN FARM AID.
Jun 26, 2009 ... The European Commission decided, on 16 June, to start an infringement procedure against Germany, which has not yet published the details of all beneficiaries of the Common Agricultural Policy on its territory, Bavaria having refused to take part in this transparency operation. ...
FARM AID MAY BE PUSHED UP TO 16 OCTOBER.
Jun 26, 2009 ... The committee in charge of managing direct agricultural aid issued a positive opinion, on 17 June, on the European Commission's proposal to authorise the member states to push forward to 16 October the partial payment of direct aid. The commitment was made by Commissioner Mariann Fischer ...
ANIMAL HEALTH : INCREASED PRESSURE TO PROHIBIT PAINFUL CASTRATION OF PIGS.
Jun 26, 2009 ... The European Commission recently gave the green light to the placing on the market, by Pfizer, of a vaccine making it possible to sterilise male pigs. This step was seen as decisive by animal welfare organisations, with a view to prohibiting painful castration, which is practised in France ...
MARIE-CHRISTINE RIBERA/CEFS.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Marie-Christine Ribera was appointed, on 15 June, director-general of the European Committee of Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS). She is replacing Jean-Louis Barjol in the post ....
FISHERIES COUNCIL : MEMBER STATES RELUCTANT ON REINFORCED CONTROLS.
Jun 26, 2009 ... The draft regulation aimed at strengthening the control system under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is one of the key points of the European Commission's strategy to improve the CFP's performances. Although they agree on the principles, the EU fisheries ministers, meeting in Luxembourg ...
AGRICULTURE COUNCIL : MEMBER STATES STILL DIVIDED OVER FUTURE OF CAP.
Jun 26, 2009 ... The Czech Presidency of the EU has had to preempt conclusions on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, which it planned to have adopted by agriculture ministers from the 27 member states, meeting on 22 June in Luxembourg. A similar mishap occurred with France at the end of 2008, ...
EUROPEAN COUNCIL : MILK AND JAMS.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Milk producers invited themselves to the June European Council in Brussels, and convinced the participants to include three lines in their summit conclusions, calling on the Commission to present "an in-depth market analysis" by September so as to take the necessary steps towards ...
MILK CRISIS SPILLS INTO SUMMIT.
Jun 26, 2009 ... The choice of the European Commission president, the Irish guarantees, financial supervision, the climate and immigration topped the agenda of the European Council, on 18-19 June, but the milk crisis - one of the sectoral effects of the economic crisis - was the uninvited guest. ...
AGRICULTURE COUNCIL : MINISTERS CALL FOR MORE CONTROL OVER CLONES.
Jun 26, 2009 ... Despite the European Commission's reluctance, EU agriculture ministers, on 22 June, approved on first reading a political agreement extending the existing rules for marketing new foodstuffs to the descendents of clones. The Commission claims that such an agreement will be impossible to ...
FISHERIES COUNCIL : MINISTERS WILLING TO GIVE BOOST TO AQUACULTURE.
Jun 26, 2009 ... In spite of the development strategy in place at EU level since 2002, European aquaculture is not faring well. Meeting in Luxembourg, on 23 June, the EU fisheries ministers expressed their "concern" about the situation and noted that while the development of European aquaculture must be ...
NEW AGRICULTURAL DENOMINATIONS.
Jun 26, 2009 ... The European Commission added, on 17 June, two denominations for Italian agricultural and food products to the list of Protected Appellations of Origin (PAOs) and Protected Geographical Indications (PGIs). This concerns the lamb Abbacchio Romano' (PGI) and the bread Pagnotta del ...
EU/US : VASSILIOU GETS REASSURANCES ON PLANNED US FOOD SAFETY LAW.
Jun 26, 2009 ... EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou was in Washington this week seeking reassurances that a proposed food safety law will take account of the EU's existing food safety regime and thus will not adversely affect EU food exports to the US. Vassiliou pressed the US administration to ...
EU/ACP : ACP STATES ORGANISE COOPERATION IN FISHERIES.
Jun 12, 2009 ... The global fisheries crisis, fleet overcapacity, depletion of resources, illegal fishing, market access problems, piracy and the impact of climate change on the marine environment and economy are the many challenges facing the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The ACP ...