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- Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) - briefing
- The European Commission has announced its intention to come up with a proposal by the summer to allow more choice to Member States in deciding whether to ... — last modified 02 March 2010, 14:11 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Brussels looks for short-term glyphosate extension
- The European Commission called Wednesday for the EU Plants Animals Food and Feed Committee to meet on June 6 to discuss a limited extension of the ... — last modified 02 June 2016, 01:09 CET — filed under: Environment, Headline1, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Glyphosate factsheet
- The Commission has called for a 'limited extension' of the current authorisation of glyphosate, an active substance used for the production of pesticides, ... — last modified 02 June 2016, 01:20 CET — filed under: Environment, Health, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Banana Split, How EU Policies Divide Global Producers: Policy Issues in International Trade and Commodities Study Series. 31
- This publication looks at the likely impact of the change of arrangements for the import of bananas into the EU. At present banana prices within the European ... — last modified 09 April 2008, 16:29 CET — filed under: Development, Agriculture, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Banana Wars: The Price of Free Trade - A Caribbean Perspective
- In the Caribbean Windward Islands, one in three jobs and half of export earnings depend on bananas. But from the end of 2005, the European Union will give up ... — last modified 09 April 2008, 16:21 CET — filed under: Development, Agriculture, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Law of the Common Agricultural Policy: The Single Payment, Cross-compliance and Enforcement
- The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the pan-European mechanism for regulating farming produce and prices. A new scheme came into force in May 2005. The ... — last modified 20 November 2007, 18:18 CET — filed under: Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Implications of the EU Banana Trade Regime for Selected Import Markets: Economic Analysis and Political Dimension
- This work focuses on the German and French banana markets, the two largest single importers of bananas in the EU, characterized by opposed pre-COMB banana ... — last modified 09 April 2008, 16:25 CET — filed under: Agriculture, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- European Agriculture: Enlargement, Structural Change, CAP Reform, and Trade Liberalization
- This book provides an in-depth look at Europe's changing agricultural and food markets, focusing on the impacts of recent policy reforms, enlargement of the ... — last modified 20 November 2007, 18:09 CET — filed under: Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Food Supply Chain Management
- "Food Supply Chain Management" is edited by Michael A. Bourlakis and Paul W. H. Weightman. The food supply chain is a series of links and inter-dependencies, ... — last modified 20 November 2007, 18:12 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Consumer, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy: History of a Paradigm Change (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)
- "Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy" presents an unprecedented comparison of three successive major reforms of the CAP. It shows the influence of related ... — last modified 20 November 2007, 18:15 CET — filed under: Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EU Platform on Animal Welfare
- The first meeting of the EU Platform on Animal Welfare (the Platform) took place on 6 June 2017. The Platform gathered 75 representatives from stakeholders, ... — last modified 07 June 2017, 01:22 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Animals, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EU moves to halve use of pesticides by 2030
- The EU will reduce the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030 under proposals announced Wednesday by the European Commission to restore damaged ecosystems ... — last modified 23 June 2022, 23:46 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Environment, Chemicals, Headline2, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Over 71% of EU farmland dedicated to meat and dairy
- At least 71% of the EU's farmland is used to feed livestock, according to new research published by Greenpeace. Around 63% of arable land is dedicated to ... — last modified 12 February 2019, 14:18 CET — filed under: Environment, Food & Drink, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Trade agreements boost for EU agri-food exports
- Trade agreements have helped to boost EU agricultural exports and have supported jobs in the agri-food sector and other sectors of the economy, according to a ... — last modified 27 February 2017, 17:48 CET — filed under: Agriculture, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Veterinary medicines and medicated feed proposals
- The European Commission adopted on 10 September proposals on veterinary medicines and medicated feed, with the aim of improving animal health and public ... — last modified 10 September 2014, 16:59 CET — filed under: Health, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- MEPs reach deal with EU Council to reduce industrial emissions
- Negotiators from the EU Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement late Tuesday on strengthening the current provisions for emissions from industry ... — last modified 29 November 2023, 22:17 CET — filed under: Environment, Food & Drink, Headline1, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Markets for agricultural products: Bananas
- The European Union's common organisation of the market in bananas allows the EU market to receive satisfactory supplies of quality bananas at fair prices for ... — last modified 16 December 2009, 15:55 CET — filed under: EU Law, EU Law summaries, Trade, Agriculture, EU legislation — Relevance: 1%
- 44 pct food has some pesticide residues, not harmful: EU report
- Food consumed in the European Union continues to be largely free of pesticide residues or to contain residues that fall within legal limits, new figures show. — last modified 20 April 2017, 18:05 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Headline2, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Transmissible animal diseases: informal deal
- Measures to prevent and treat animal diseases such as avian flu or African swine fever were informally agreed by MEPs, the EU's Latvian Presidency and the ... — last modified 04 June 2015, 13:39 CET — filed under: Health, Agriculture, European Parliament — Relevance: 1%
- EU must make consumers' chicken safe without chemicals
- Chicken sold in Europe in the future could be dipped in chemicals to wash bacteria away, according to a European Commission proposal BEUC strongly disapproves ... — last modified 10 December 2015, 18:18 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Consumer, Agriculture, Health — Relevance: 1%
- The US example shows why new methods of genetically engineering crop plants need to be regulated
- According to research carried out by Testbiotech, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has already given non-regulated status to more than 20 ... — last modified 14 March 2019, 14:02 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Special report no 04/2019: The control system for organic products has improved, but some challenges remain
- Since 1991, the EU has had a control system governing the production, processing, distribution and import of organic products. It aims to give consumers the ... — last modified 14 March 2019, 15:26 CET — filed under: Environment, Food & Drink, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EU looks to phase out cages for farm animals
- The EU Commission responded positively Wednesday to a European citizens' petition to 'End the Cage Age' with plans for a legislative proposal by 2023 to ... — last modified 06 July 2021, 00:31 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Agriculture, Environment, Headline2, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Brussels launches strategic dialogue on future of farming in the EU
- European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen launched a Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture Thursday, a new forum on the future of the EU's ... — last modified 25 January 2024, 22:55 CET — filed under: Headline, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EU Tenders - Agriculture and Food
- Today's EU tenders covering Agriculture and Food business sectors from 'Tenders Electronic Daily' (TED) — last modified 08 September 2021, 15:46 CET — filed under: Agriculture, Tenders — Relevance: 1%
- Stronger political focus needed for future of farming
- Agriculture ministers must not jeopardise a fairer and greener future for farming in Europe by pushing for industrial farming — last modified 20 October 2011, 16:58 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Sustainable use of pesticides
- This European Commission website contains links to EU Member States' websites on sustainable use of pesticides, including Integrated Pest Management (IPM) , ... — last modified 10 October 2017, 17:44 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Health, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Commission Communication on the CAP towards 2020
- The European Commission Communication "TheCAP towards 2020: Meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future", which was presented ... — last modified 18 November 2010, 23:31 CET — filed under: Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Euro-MPs call for food price transparency
- New legislation is needed to ensure fair returns to farmers and transparent prices to consumers, by enforcing fair competition throughout the food supply ... — last modified 28 June 2010, 22:13 CET — filed under: Single Market, EU Law, price, Food & Drink, European Parliament, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Eco-schemes feature in EU's greener common farm policy
- Farmers will be afforded flexibility on the way to higher environmental standards in farming in the post-2020 common agricultural policy reform package agreed ... — last modified 21 October 2020, 18:33 CET — filed under: Environment, Council of Ministers, Headline, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%