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Food safety watchdog won’t discuss funding shortfall with Health Commissioner
27 Apr 2016
The EU’s food safety watchdog faces a funding shortfall over the next five years but will not discuss the issue with Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis when he visits its P...
Tags: EFSA, European Commission
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Dutch voters now demanding referendum on TTIP
15 Apr 2016
EXCLUSIVE / Dutch voters want a referendum on the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), throwing into doubt the future of the US-EU free trade deal, nine days afte...
Tags: European Commission, TTIP
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Brussels promises hormone disruptors definition ‘by this summer’
04 Mar 2016
The European Commission has responded to criticism over its weaknesses on health and food safety with a series of goodwill gestures on hormone disruptors and glyphosate during a vi...
Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, Glyphosate, Hormone
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Ombudsman criticises Commission’s handling of pesticides
24 Feb 2016
European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has strongly criticised the European Commission’s regulation of pesticides. In early 2013, O’Reilly’s predecessor, Nikiforos Diamandouros,...
Tags: European Commission, Pesticides
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CAP and animal welfare: Simply incompatible
23 Feb 2016
Livestock production has been at the centre of the intensification in agriculture brought by Europe’s Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), writes Olga Kikou. These policies have put ...
Tags: Agriculture, Animals, European Commission
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MEPs object to three GM soybean authorisations
03 Feb 2016
The EU Commission should not authorize the use of glyphosate-tolerant GM soybeans in food and feed, said Parliament on Wednesday. MEPs note that glyphosate, a herbicide, is classif...
Tags: European Commission, European Parliament, Glyphosate, GMO, WHO
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Baby food: “Let’s boot out excess sugar, babies are sweet enough already”
28 Jan 2016
MEPs have forced the European Commission back to the drawing board after rejecting its plans that would have allowed baby food to continue to contain up to three times more sugar t...
Tags: Babies, European Commission, European Parliament, Sugar
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EU aims to crack down on unsustainable palm oil and illegal logging
10 Dec 2015
In the next five years, the major European players, including Germany, want palm oil production to become 100% sustainable and to see an end to illegal logging. EurActiv Germany re...
Tags: European Commission, European Parliament, Germany, Palm oil
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EU agri-food industries draw ‘red lines’ in TTIP battle
16 Oct 2015
European agri-food business organisations have drawn their “red lines” ahead of the eleventh round of EU-US trade talks taking place next week, expressing serious concerns over...
Tags: European Commission, TTIP
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Commission’s proposal for stricter thresholds in organic farming opposed
07 Oct 2015
The European Commission is considering stricter pesticide limits for organic products. The organic sector and the European Parliament are not in agreement. Read more here....
Tags: European Commission, European Parliament, Organic, Pesticides
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Cloning vote splits EC and European Parliament
08 Sep 2015
The European Commission (EC) has attacked the European Parliament’s vote (8 September 2015) to completely ban use of cloned animals and their descendants for domestic and impor...
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EU wastes tonnes of food, and UK is the worst offender
13 Aug 2015
The European Union wastes about 22 million tonnes of food a year and Britain wastes the most, according to a study by European Commission-backed researchers. Read more here....
Tags: European Commission, Food Waste
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British lawmakers demand action from Juncker on food waste
24 Jul 2015
The House of Lords, along with 16 member states, sent a letter to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on 22 July demanding that the EU crack down on food waste. Read the Eurac...
Tags: European Commission, Food Waste
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Circular economy: “systemic change” needed to address resource scarcity
17 Jun 2015
European Parliament Press release – Environment Binding waste-reduction targets, revamped ecodesign legislation and measures to break the link between growth and the use of ...
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European Commission and chemicals lobby deny delaying tactics over hormone disruptors
21 May 2015
The European Commission and the chemicals industry have rejected claims, revealed by leaked emails in a new NGO report, that they actively sought to slow down work on the definitio...
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Standards to better inform about food security decisions
20 May 2015
In the context of Expo Milano 2015, on 20 May 2015, the JRC and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development host participating...
Tags: European Commission, Food Safety
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Regulators urged to promote trust in Europe’s food chain
11 May 2015
As the agricultural sector faces mounting pressure to raise production, consumer trust in the safety of the food supply chain has been eroding, a European Commission official warne...
Tags: European Commission, Food Safety
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EU proposal on GMO food criticised by Greenpeace, industry
22 Apr 2015
The European Commission’s proposed new rules on the approval of food derived from genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), published on Wednesday (22 April), have immediately a...
Tags: European Commission, GMO
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Officials accuse Timmermans of delaying EU health, food safety rules
22 Apr 2015
A growing number of officials in the European Commission’s health unit are complaining that health and food safety legislation is being delayed due to slow decision-making fr...
Tags: European Commission, Food Safety
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Ombudsman: EU must interrogate US over TTIP transparency
21 Apr 2015
The United States’ resistance to greater transparency in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks, poses a problem to a European Commission that must answe...
Tags: European Commission, TTIP
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European Commission clarifies new GMO import rules
16 Apr 2015
An internal document seen by EurActiv discloses Commission plans to give member states the final say on whether or not to accept GMO imports. EurActiv France reports. Click here to...
Tags: European Commission, GMO
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Commission prepares minimal reform of GMO imports
09 Apr 2015
The European executive plans to present a new legal framework for GMO imports by the end of the month. Member states could be given the final say over imports, a possibility that d...
Tags: European Commission, GMO
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MEPs to grill Commission over delays in tackling hormone-disrupting chemicals
09 Mar 2015
Plenary sessions : Growing worries that endocrine disruptors can damage your health will be raised in MEPs questions to health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis on Monday, 9 Marc...
Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, European Parliament
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Agriculture Commissioner promises GMO labelling, despite TTIP
17 Jan 2015
If a product contains genetically modified corn, it will still be labelled as such in the future, assured EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, seeking to dispel fears that consu...
Tags: European Commission, GMO, Labelling, TTIP
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HEAL: ‘Endocrine disruptors are one of the biggest public health threats of this century’
16 Jan 2015
Although hormone-disrupting chemicals are recognised as a global public health threat by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Commission’s public consultation on...
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Waste Legislative package (COD) – Exchange of views & Public Hearing
06 Jan 2015
An exchange of views with the European Commission, represented by Director General Mr Karl Falkenberg, on the review of six waste directives (Waste Framework, Packaging & Packi...
Tags: European Commission, Food Waste, Hearing