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Fertilizer manufacturers in the European Union have contended that the influx of imports of low-cost material from Eastern and Central Europe has undermined their efforts to restructure in the wake [...]

Whereas few of his economic doctrines stood the test of time, his philosophical ones might not be equally false at last. Karl Marx, in his analysis of the rise and [...]

EU member states could see guidelines from the European Commission by the summer on managing the 'co-existence' of genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops -- a development which might help [...]

The organisers of the 'Right2Water' campaign are urging the European Commission to take legislative steps to ensure that access to water becomes a basic human right. During a hearing at [...]

Under the catchy slogan of 'Eat well - feel good', the European Commission wants to merge the two current food schemes, the fruit and vegetables scheme and the milk scheme, [...]

The European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture (AGRI) wants to throw out the European Commission's draft plant reproductive material regulation, also known as seed regulation, due mainly to the lack of [...]

The European Commission has yet to publish the practical details of how it intends that its July proposal for the decoupling of farm subsidies from production and their conversion into [...]

The CEECs' share of CAP production quotas will be lower than they would have wished on joining the EU, under the proposals tabled by the Commission on Wednesday. The policy [...]

On 20 June, the European Commission green-lighted four new additions to the list of protected designations of origin (PDOs) and protected geographical indications (PGI).áFor France, the Saucisse de Montbéliard' (PGI), [...]

In a common declaration, adopted on 17 May, during a meeting in Krakow, Poland, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian ministers fiercely criticised the European Commission's draft tobacco directive, [...]

The EU Council decided, on 11 March, to raise no objections to two European Commission decisions amending Annex I of Directive 98/8/EC on the placing of biocidal products on the [...]

The reductions in total allowable catches (TACs) proposed by the European Commission for 2013 for many stocks «are certain to affect the viability of companies in the sector and will [...]

EU farm ministers' first Council meeting under the French presidency on Monday is slated to be a lowkey affair, centring around initial discussions of the Commission's proposals for the reform [...]

A fishing quota is a theoretical maximum catch limit that in no case may be exceeded and that gives fishermen no guarantee that they may catch the entire quota allocated [...]

On 7 June, the Council of the EU backed the choice made by the European Commission to limit the scope of the draft regulation on food intended for infants and [...]

Twelve of the 13 states ordered by the European Commission, on 26 January, to comply with new standards for the protection of laying hens may face infringement proceedings, according to [...]

The European Commission has called on member states to recover some 54.3 million in EU agricultural funds that have been misspent, with the UK, the Netherlands and Italy facing the [...]

An increase in erosion, soil sealing, acidification and pollution in the EU during the period 1990-2006 have had a serious effect on the EU's food-producing capacity, as well as its [...]

The EU General Court upheld, in a judgement handed down on 9 September, the validity of the less binding measures adopted by the European Commission in 2008 for the surveillance [...]

The European Commission proposed, on 14 December, to allow Bulgaria and Romania to maintain restrictions on the sale of agricultural land in their territories until the end of their transition [...]

On 17 December, the European Commission added three agricultural and food products to its list of protected designation of origin (PDO) andáprotected geographical indication (PGI) . These are the French [...]

On 9 December, the European Commission added two agricultural and food products to the list of protected geographical indications (PGIs). They are, for Germany, the cake Salzwedeler Baumkuchen' and for [...]

La Commission européenne a ajouté le 25 mars six dénominations de produits agricoles et alimentaires à la liste des appellations d'origine protégées (AOP) et indications géographiques protégées (IGP). Il s'agit [...]

The European Commission is sitting on the results of a study of the low-level presence (LLP) of unauthorized transgenic material in conventional seeds in order to avoid legislating on the [...]

Recreational' fishing must be monitored on the same level as commercial fishing, at least when it gives rise to important catches, considers the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee which, by adopting [...]

The last draft proposal on Tobacco Advertising, consisting of seven articles, was issued on May 6 to be presented to the EC Commission. The whole purpose appears to ensure that [...]

The European Commission published, on 10 September, a draft action plan for animal health that gives concrete form to the new EU strategy in this field, presented a few months [...]

The European Commission adopted, on 23 July, a proposal for a regulation banning the trade of products derived from seals (skin, fat and meat) within, into and from the European [...]

At the Fisheries Council, meeting in Luxembourg on 24 June, Paris and Rome led the revolt against the decision of 13 June to ban bluefin tuna fishing (see article below), [...]

The Council gave the European Commission the mandate, on 24 June, to negotiate, in the name of the EU, the development of a legally-binding international instrument on port state measures [...]

Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg remains unyielding. During a discussion with French and Italian fishermen, on 23 June in Brussels, he confirmed that the European Commission's decision of 13 June regarding [...]

Define the EU's priority actions in the field of animal health, streamline its legislative framework, increase prevention and surveillance of sanitary crises and enhance research and innovation in the field. [...]

The European Commission announced, on 31 October, that it had reached an agreement with several North Atlantic coastal states regarding 2008 fishing opportunities for blue whiting, Atlanto-Scandian herring and mackerel. [...]

The European Commission adopted on 24 October decisions authorising three genetically modified (GM) maize varieties (1507xNK603; NK603 x MON810; and 59122 Herculex RW) for feed and food use and for [...]

Based on an updated market forecast for the sugar marketing year 2007-2008, the European Commission decided on 10 October to maintain unchanged the level of preventive withdrawal of two million [...]

On 10 October, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health returned, as usual on this matter, no definitive opinion either for or against European Commission proposals to [...]

The European Commission adopted on 26 June a regulation amending the EU provisions for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in sheep and goats. The new legislation makes the TSE monitoring and [...]

On 21 May, the Council decided to repeal the so-called knots in the wood' directive (68/89/EEC). In the future, it will be up to standardisation organisations to define wood criteria [...]

Production and support for cotton in the EU gives rise to several economic, environmental, social and quality questions. Following a ruling by the EU Court of Justice, the European Commission [...]

The European Commission adopted on 15 February a regulation which provides for the reduction of fishing quotas for the UK and Ireland over the period 2007 to 2012. This is [...]

Community funding is to be provided to help combat illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in the South West Indian Ocean, following a written decision adopted by the European Commission [...]

The EU Council, on 18 December, rejected by qualified majority a proposal by the European Commission to oblige Austria to lift its ban on the use or sale, on Austrian [...]

The European Ombudsman, Nikiforos Diamandouros, has criticised the European Commission for having failed to ensure that the Court of Justice's keyarulings on a German decree governing the prevention and recycling [...]

The EU is preparing to gradually bring fish meal back into the food chain for ruminants. Under the terms of a compromise hammered out by member states, the ban on [...]

The European Commission is due next month, in theory on 7 June, to adopt a new Regulation replacing the 1991 Directive on the marketing of plant health products. The proposal, [...]

The European Commission has taken its first practical steps to comply with a WTO dispute ruling from last year by publishing a guide and application forms online for registering regional [...]

After much ditheringn and in response to the avian flu pandemic, the European Commission on 29 March formally proposed to extend the scope of the two regulations (2771/75 and 2777/75), [...]

At the February 20 Farm Council meeting, the Polish delegation requested a discussion on the definition of vodka as set out in the European Commission's newly-proposed Spirits Regulation. The legislation [...]