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Stop regulating biosolutions as chemicals, requests Novonesis CEO [Advocacy Lab Content]on 10/03/24 Fresh from a company merger, Novonesis CEO Ester Baiget came to Brussels with an important ask – to create a level playing field for biosolutions; arguing it makes no sense to treat enzymes and proteins as if they were manmade. ‘You are the farming queen’: Von der Leyen woos farmers in run-up to EU electionon 08/03/24 Ursula von der Leyen did not forget about angered EU farmers during the launch of her election campaign for a second mandate at the European Commission on Thursday (7 March), but omitted all reference to the agricultural policies that she penned during her five-year term. EU countries urge Commission to speed up cutting of red tape for farmerson 08/03/24 Twenty-two European countries wrote to the Commission calling for immediate initiatives to respond to the agricultural crisis, with the bloc's executive confirming its intention to table measures next week. Ukraine, Poland close to solving imports dispute, says Kyiv trade ministeron 08/03/24 As the EU moves to extend trade liberalisation with Kyiv, Ukraine's trade representative Taras Kachka told Euractiv that talks with Warsaw will soon lead to safeguard measures to protect Polish farmers from the influx of Ukrainian agricultural imports. French health agency report challenges proposed EU rules on gene-edited plantson 07/03/24 France's national health and food safety agency published a report on Wednesday (6 March) recommending that gene-edited plants be assessed "on a case-by-case basis", calling into question a legal text currently being negotiated in the EU institutions. Brazil, Spain ‘ready’ to sign EU-Mercosur trade deal despite France’s oppositionon 07/03/24 Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reaffirmed his readiness to seal a long-stalled trade deal between the EU and the Mercosur bloc during a meeting with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Brasilia on Wednesday (6 March). EU Parliament’s trade committee approves renewal of Ukraine trade benefitson 07/03/24 The European Parliament's trade committee rejected all of the amendments backed by farming groups on the proposal to suspend import duties and quotas on agricultural products from Ukraine, paving the way for a swift adoption of the decision at the EU level. EU is too dependent on animal feed and fertiliser imports, warns Parliament studyon 07/03/24 The EU remains heavily reliant on animal feed and fertilisers imports from outside the bloc, as highlighted in a recent study commissioned by the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee (AGRI). Leading EPP lawmaker to challenge new EU livestock emissions rules in final voteon 07/03/24 Centre-right MEPs could obstruct the extension of new EU rules on industrial emissions to more pig and poultry farms during a final vote at the European Parliament next Tuesday (12 March). Parliament committee considers more safeguards in trade liberalisation with Ukraineon 06/03/24 The European Parliament Trade Committee will vote tomorrow (7 March) whether to add new limits to trade benefits to Kyiv to appease EU farmers, or to approve the new rules with no changes to speed up their adoption in help of the country in war.
