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- EU paves the way for Internet of Things (IoT) in the food & farming sector
- The Internet of Food & Farm 2020 (IoF2020), a EUR 30-million H2020 co-funded project by the European Commission, was officially launched in Amsterdam on the ... — last modified 24 February 2017, 00:11 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Agriculture, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Call to stop patents on beer
- 32 civil society organisations started Wednesday a public appeal to politicians and demand that effective prohibitions are put in place to stop the granting of ... — last modified 16 March 2017, 20:05 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Stop patents on bread and beer now!
- Patents claiming wheat, flour and bread, or tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber as inventions of industry - these are just a few examples of patent applications ... — last modified 10 April 2017, 17:50 CET — filed under: Environment, Research & Technology, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Retailers call for Commission to ask right questions on trading practices
- Following the announcement by Commissioner Hogan at the European Parliament Agriculture committee yesterday of the launch of a process leading to proposals on ... — last modified 21 June 2017, 18:22 CET — filed under: Agriculture, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Still no solution regarding patents on plants and animals
- The 38 Contracting States of the European Patent Office (EPO) at their meeting in The Hague decided to strengthen prohibitions in European patent law in regard ... — last modified 29 June 2017, 23:30 CET — filed under: Environment, Food & Drink, Agriculture, Research & Technology — Relevance: 1%
- Germany abstained in vote on import of new genetically engineered soybeans
- In the vote on import approval for a new variety of genetically engineered soybeans in Brussels on 12 July, Germany was the only country which abstained. — last modified 17 July 2017, 13:01 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- CIUS welcomes the End of the Sugar and Isoglucose Quota Regime as a step in the right direction
- CIUS, the European Sugar Users, welcomes the end to market-distorting sugar production quotas. They have for too long, hampered the competitiveness of the ... — last modified 29 September 2017, 18:26 CET — filed under: Agriculture, sugar — Relevance: 1%
- Consumers and farmers disadvantaged if agriculture exempted from competition rules
- Speaking today, EuroCommerce Director-General Christian Verschueren warned of the potential unforeseen consequences of pressure from the European Parliament in ... — last modified 10 October 2017, 17:34 CET — filed under: Agriculture, Competition — Relevance: 1%
- Opposition to Monsanto bio-piracy patent on soybeans rejected
- The European Patent Office (EPO) rejected on 11 October the opposition filed by 'No Patents on Seeds!' against the Monsanto patent EP 2134870. — last modified 12 October 2017, 14:11 CET — filed under: Environment, Research & Technology, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EU Parliament calls for EU agriculture and budget to better protect biodiversity
- Today the European Parliament voted a resolution, supporting the EU Commission’s Action Plan for nature, people and the economy [1], and calling for the future ... — last modified 16 November 2017, 18:43 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- WWF reaction: New EU farming policy will require Member States to deliver benefits for nature
- Today the European Commission presented its Communication on the future of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) beyond 2020. The communication calls for a ... — last modified 29 November 2017, 19:04 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Retailers support measures to help farmers in Omnibus Regulation - if they support competition
- Responding to the adoption today by the European Parliament and Council of the text agreed in October in trilogue discussions on the Omnibus Regulation ... — last modified 15 December 2017, 01:09 CET — filed under: SMEs, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Don’t let regulation get in the way of consumers buying more organic food
- Speaking today on the vote in the European Parliament on the EU Organic Production Regulation, EuroCommerce Director-General Christian Verschueren warned that ... — last modified 19 April 2018, 17:43 CET — filed under: Environment, Food & Drink, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Monsanto granted "patent on severed broccoli"
- European Patent Office once again grants a patent on plant breeding — last modified 12 June 2013, 23:36 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Research & Technology, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- European Patent Office boosts its business with Patents on Life
- A monopoly on specific tomatoes with a higher content of healthy compounds known as flavonols was granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) to the Swiss ... — last modified 26 August 2015, 23:46 CET — filed under: Environment, Research & Technology, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- European Patent Office revokes Monsanto patent on melons
- The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked a patent held by Monsanto on melons (EP1962578) for technical reasons. — last modified 20 January 2016, 18:22 CET — filed under: Environment, Food & Drink, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Over 250,000 Europeans call on EU Commission to radically reform EU agriculture
- Today a clear and strong message reached the European Commission: the EU’s agricultural policy needs to be radically changed. This is what 258,708 citizens and ... — last modified 03 May 2017, 23:35 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- European Parliament calling for patents on plants derived from conventional breeding to be stopped
- In a resolution backed by a large majority of its members, the European Parliament has taken a clear position against granting patents on plants derived from ... — last modified 17 December 2015, 23:15 CET — filed under: Environment, Research & Technology, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Syngenta fails at the European Patent Office
- At a public hearing, the European Patent Office (EPO) rejected on 17 January an appeal filed by Syngenta. — last modified 18 January 2018, 17:29 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EU, United States sign agreement on imports of hormone-free beef
- The European Union and the United States signed in Washington D.C. Friday an agreement reviewing the functioning of an existing quota to import hormone-free ... — last modified 08 August 2019, 23:43 CET — filed under: Headline2, Agriculture, USA, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- EU agrees farm quotas with US post-Brexit
- The European Union and the United States concluded negotiations Monday to adjust the European Union's World Trade Organization (WTO) agricultural quotas, ... — last modified 09 March 2021, 22:11 CET — filed under: Brexit, USA, Trade, Food & Drink, Headline1, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- CAP reform must benefit society as a whole, say MEPs
- EU plans to reform the much-maligned Common Agricultural Policy must be shaped with the help and backing of EU citizens, say MEPs, to ensure that the post-2013 ... — last modified 14 April 2010, 00:00 CET — filed under: EU Law, CAP, Agriculture, European Parliament — Relevance: 1%
- Consumers want more organic food, retail and wholesale wants to provide it
- Speaking today on the launch of the Commission 2030 Action Plan for organic production, EuroCommerce Director-General Christian Verschueren said: — last modified 25 March 2021, 23:56 CET — filed under: Environment, SMEs, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EU budget: the Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy
- To help repair the economic and social damage brought by the coronavirus pandemic, kick-start European recovery, and protect and create jobs, the European ... — last modified 03 June 2020, 23:42 CET — filed under: Environment, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- New EU vine planting rules
- New EU rules for a new scheme of authorisations for vine plantings, allowing for a yearly limited expansion in the EU's wine area, were published by the ... — last modified 13 April 2015, 23:42 CET — filed under: Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Cumulative economic impact of trade agreements on EU agriculture
- The EU trade agenda is set to have an overall positive impact on the EU economy and the agri-food sector, according to a new study published today. Trade ... — last modified 26 January 2021, 22:15 CET — filed under: Agriculture, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Avian Influenza in The Netherlands and the UK
- The European Commission adopted on 17 November two emergency safeguard Decisions addressed to The Netherlands and the UK that define the areas that have been ... — last modified 18 November 2014, 23:20 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Health, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Wine market observatory
- The aim of the EU wine market observatory is to provide the EU wine sector with more transparency by means of disseminating market data and short-term analysis ... — last modified 06 October 2021, 17:50 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EU extends current CAP rules until end 2022
- EU farm ministers reached provisional agreement with the European Parliament Wednesday on continuing farming support under the current legal framework until ... — last modified 01 July 2020, 00:20 CET — filed under: Headline2, Agriculture, European Council, European Parliament — Relevance: 1%
- Brussels consults on new EU Soil Strategy
- The EU Commission launched a public consultation on a new EU soil strategy Tuesday, the last of a set of consultations on different ecosystems which forms part ... — last modified 04 February 2021, 17:29 CET — filed under: Environment, Food & Drink, Headline2, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%