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The European Parliament approved the biggest reform of farm subsidies in decades on Tuesday, in a vote that switches cash to smaller farms and...

Biogenic methane accounting among EU methane strategy amendments 2021-10-14

European Parliament Votes To End Caged Farming by 2027 The European Parliament voted this week to implement a ban on caged farming across the European Union. Following the committee’s debate regarding the “End the Cage Age” petition, the parliament decided in favor of the ban that aims to completely dismantle caged animal farming by 2027. Announced on June 10th,  the non-binding resolution hopes to change animal agriculture across Europe by removing cages in an effort to reinvent the f...

SHARING OPTIONS: Portuguese Minister for Agriculture Maria do Ceu Antunes greets Irish Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue \ Antonio Pedro Santos/LUSA All sides in CAP reform talks have stressed that every effort will be made to conclude negotiations by the end of June, but large gaps remain between them. The Council of Agricultural Ministers gathered in Portugal this week to try assemble a united front ahead of a resumption of talks with MEPs in t...

4 hours ago Council’s lack of flexibility threatens security for EU farmers, Agriculture Committee Chair Norbert Lins warned, calling on Council to return to proper negotiations. Chair of the Agriculture Committee and head EP negotiator on the post-2022 EU farm policy Norbert Lins (EPP, DE) issued the following statement after the lack of results in this week’s “supertrilogue” negotiations: “For the past six months we have been negotiating in good faith, trying to deliver a greener,...

Council’s lack of flexibility threatens security for EU farmers, Agriculture Committee Chair Norbert Lins warned, calling on Council to return to proper …

Council’s lack of flexibility threatens security for EU farmers, Agriculture Committee Chair Norbert Lins warned, calling on Council to return to proper negotiations.

A new study from the European Commission has concluded that the current legal framework governing new genomic techniques (NGTs) is insufficient and indicated that new policy instruments should be considered to reap the benefits of this technology. The much-awaited study, which was published on Thursday (29 April), was requested one year ago by the EU Council to clarify the situation following a controversial European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in 2018 that organisms obtained by NGTs should, ...

SHARING OPTIONS: Rather than rewarding farmers for environmental action, it may only be possible to compensate them. \ Philip Doyle Irish farmers could lose out on €300m of direct income supports under the next CAP, the Irish Farmers Journal has learned. International funding rules look set to scupper any plans to reward farmers for additional environmental action in the next CAP, European Parliament chief negotiator Norbert Lins, a central figure in t...

Chair of the European Parliaments agriculture committee Norbert Lins. \ Mathieu Cugnot, EP The European Parliament will continue to seek the full flattening of farm payments in the next CAP, according to its chief negotiator in ongoing reforms. Achieving full internal convergence was not a bad objective for the next CAP, chair of the Parliament’s agriculture committee Norbert Lins told an Irish Farmers Journal webinar. The policy of convergence has been extremely divisive since it was first ...