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EUDR: Council and Parliament agreement for a further one-year postponement, with new provisions

On 04/12/2025, the Council and Parliament reached a political agreement to postpone the entry into force of the European Deforestation Law by one more year, after the Commission alerted, in September 2025, of "an IT technical problem" preventing the launch of the platform on 30/12/2025. The vote…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Biodiversity
• Article # 422494
• Published on 08/12/25 at 14:00
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Agenda of the week: Events not to be missed between 08 and 12/12/2025

This week’s highlights will be the announcements following the College meeting of the European Commission on the Environmental Omnibus on Wednesday, and the Agrifish Council, which will take place in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. On Monday, the first Water Resilience Forum will be hosted…
Domain(s): Energies, Mobilities, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Essentials
• Article # 422465
• Published on 08/12/25 at 12:36
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£828M losses for farmers for 2025 harvest, with hottest spring and summer on record in the UK (ECIU)

With the hottest spring and summer on record in the UK, and the driest spring in England for over 100 years, farmers who cultivate wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape have experienced one the poorest harvest ever recorded: this is the main conclusion of a report published by the British Economy…
Domain(s): Agrifood
• Category(ies): Essentials, Producers, Production / Construction, …
• Article # 422153
• Published on 04/12/25 at 16:00
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EU: deal concluded between Council and Parliament on new genomic techniques (NGT) plants

A framework for a simplified development and access to market of category 1 NGT plants (similar to conventional): this is the provisional agreement concluded between the European Council and the European Parliament on 03/12/2025, two years after the first bill on the topic proposed by the…
Domain(s): Agrifood
• Category(ies): Essentials, European bodies, Policies & Regulation, …
• Article # 422054
• Published on 04/12/25 at 08:45
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Agenda of the week: Events not to be missed between 01 and 05/12/2025

This week’s highlight will be the EU Clean Air Forum, which will take place from 01 to 02/12/2025 in Bonn (Germany), where policymakers, scientists and stakeholders will exchange on air quality challenges and future EU action. In Paris, the Paris Energy Week, coorganised by the Ecole des Mines…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Farming / food production, …
• Article # 421395
• Published on 01/12/25 at 09:00
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"We call for a definitive removal of fertilisers out the CBAM scope" (AGPB/ French wheat producers union)

"The solutions put forward today to offset CBAM impact on fertiliser prices would cure a symptom but not the disease! We are heading for a disaster from which many of us will never recover", declared the AGPB on 28/11/2025. On 27/11/2025, a working group bringing together ministerial departments…
Domain(s): Agrifood
• Category(ies): Trade unions & federations, Decarbonisation , Policies & Regulation, …
• Article # 421422
• Published on 28/11/25 at 17:00
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FR / Eco-schemes: unit amounts for environmental and animal welfare good practices amended (JO)

The unit amounts of the voluntary environmental and animal welfare programme known as the "ecoregime" (eco-scheme) for the 2025 campaign have been amended by order of the French Minister for Agriculture, Food and Food Sovereignty and the Minister for Action and Public Accounts, dated 25/11/2025…
Domain(s): Agrifood
• Category(ies): National bodies, Financing & funding, Policies & Regulation, …
• Article # 421308
• Published on 28/11/25 at 11:00
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Bioeconomy Strategy: "This is a major missed opportunity to correct years of misguided policies" (EEB)

The EEB (European Environmental Bureau) expressed concerns about the new European Commission's Bioeconomy Strategic Framework, presented by Jessika Roswall, Commissioner for Climate, Circular Economy and Water Resilience, in Brussels, on 27/11/2025. The Strategy aims to scale up innovation and…
Domain(s): Energies, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Associations & NGOs, Bioeconomy, Farming / food production
• Article # 421233
• Published on 27/11/25 at 17:05
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EU: Launch of design of three new IPCEI projects in biotechnologies by the JEF-IPCEI

The JEF-IPCEI (Joint European Forum for Important Projects of Common European Interest) endorsed the launch of the design phase for three new IPCEI candidates on biotechnologies , announced the European Commission on 25/11/2025. The JEF-IPCEI covers the entire lifecycle of the IPCEI process of…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Bioeconomy, Climate / carbon, …
• Article # 420909
• Published on 26/11/25 at 16:06
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EC: Launch of an impact assessment on hazardous pesticides entering the EU through imported products

The European Commission has launched an impact assessment on hazardous pesticides entering the EU through imported products, as it had committed in its 'Vision for Agriculture and Food', announced the Commission on 25/11/2025. On 19/02/2025, the European Commission presented its Vision on the…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Public health & nutrition, …
• Article # 420951
• Published on 26/11/25 at 16:00