The EU Environment Commissioner is proposing a further one-year delay to the implementation of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). The AIC calls the proposal a “pragmatic and necessary step to avoid disruption and...
Following the farmer protests in many EU capitals and regions, the European Commission has shelved controversial parts of its Green Deal package. At the same time, the European Parliament has adopted a report favouring gene-editing....
European farm, trade and crop processing bodies have warned that EU measures to reduce crop growing pressure on rainforest regions will fall short of the ambition to tackle global deforestation while risking food supply chain...
Thérèse Coffey, Defra’s longest continuously serving minister, has moved to become Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, following Amber Rudd’s dramatic resignation last weekend. Ms Coffey, MP for Suffolk Coastal, was promoted to minister of state at Defra by the...
The four UK farming union presidents have called on the 73 newly elected UK members of the European Parliament, following last week’s election, to listen to the views of agricultural communities and help shape an enabling policy environment for the farmers they...
Industry bodies have set out priorities for future agricultural policy ahead of the European Parliament elections next week. While it is unclear whether the new raft of UK MEPs will ever take up their seats - or for how long - the policy areas highlighted are seen as...