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EP: MEPs in favour of a swift and easier implementation of biological control products

590 MEPs voted in favour of faster approval and authorisation procedures for biological control agents, 28 voted against, and 32 abstained, during the plenary session in Strasbourg on 25/11/2025. “More biodiversity in the countryside, less harmful chemicals in our food and water, and a safer…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Essentials, European bodies, Policies & Regulation, …
• Article # 420810
• Published on 25/11/25 at 16:26
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"We need to support biological control, not dismantling safeguards for chemical pesticides" (MEPs letter)

A letter to the European Commission, including Olivér Várhelyi, the European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, has been sent by 5 MEPs from the Greens-EFA (European Free Alliance) group on 24/11/2025 about the DG Sante draft proposal for an Omnibus Regulation on Food and Feed Safety…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Farming / food production
• Article # 420790
• Published on 25/11/25 at 14:18
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COP30: "The pace remains far too insufficient to meet the urgency of the climate crisis" (M. Chahim, MEP)

Reactions to the "Global Mutirão", the multilateral agreement adopted at the end of the COP30 in Bélem (Brazil), on 22/11/2025, were rarely positive in the EU, except for the European Commission's President, Ursula von der Leyen, who declared that "strong EU efforts helped to secure a deal at…
Domain(s): Energies, Mobilities, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Associations & NGOs, European bodies, Carbon capture & mitigation, …
• Article # 420584
• Published on 24/11/25 at 16:40
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COP30 outcomes: no roadmap to phase-out fossil fuels, a step towards creating a Just Transition Mechanism

On 22/11/2025, the Brazilian Presidency of the COP30 released its "Global Mutirão (Task Force): Uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change", representing the official outcomes agreed upon at the Conference of the Parties, which took place in Bélem (Brazil) from 10 to…
Domain(s): Energies, Mobilities, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): International bodies, Carbon capture & mitigation, Climate adaptation & resilience, …
• Article # 420538
• Published on 24/11/25 at 14:21
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Agenda of the week: events not to be missed between 24 and 28/11/2025

This week's highlight will be the Plenary Session in Strasbourg (France) from 24 to 27/11/2025. MEPs will vote on simplification proposals regarding the EUDR (EU deforestation regulation) on 26/11/2025. On 27/11/2025, they will also have a debate jointly with the Commission on the results of the…
Domain(s): Energies, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Biodiversity, …
• Article # 420242
• Published on 24/11/25 at 09:00
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FR: extension of the national Agricultural Water Fund to 2026 with a €20M budget

"We are financing climate adaptation with a renewed commitment of €20M to the French national Water Fund for 2026. This was my red line, because without water there can be no agriculture. It's a start-up fund: we'll have to go much further, with European aid and aid from the regional authorities"…
Domain(s): Agrifood
• Category(ies): National bodies, Financing & funding, Policies & Regulation, …
• Article # 420321
• Published on 21/11/25 at 09:08
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"Warming could be halved by 2040 if three climate actions were implemented" (Climate Action Tracker)

"If governments were to implement three key climate actions they already negotiated and agreed on in 2023 -tripling renewables, doubling energy efficiency, and acting to reduce methane emissions by 2030- they could cut global emissions by 18 billion tonnes in 2035 compared to current emission…
Domain(s): Energies, Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): Academic, Carbon capture & mitigation, Decarbonisation , …
• Article # 420249
• Published on 20/11/25 at 17:11
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"Lead markets are necessary to accelerate the adoption of clean hydrogen" (PwC/Hydrogen Europe)

"The EU ETS and CBAM alone are not sufficient to close the cost gap between conventional and clean primary steel and fertiliser production routes. This highlights the urgent need for new regulatory approaches such as lead markets to accelerate the uptake of clean hydrogen via clean primary steel…
Domain(s): Energies, Agrifood
• Category(ies): Associations & NGOs, Policies & Regulation, Farming / food production, …
• Article # 420236
• Published on 20/11/25 at 15:24
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EP/ AGRI Committee in favour of Council's CAP simplification proposal

The AGRI Committee adopted the provisional agreement between the Danish Presidency of the Council and the European Parliament negotiators led by André Rodrigues, MEP (S&D, PT), on the CAP simplification package by 34 votes for, 3 votes against, and 1 abstention, on 20/11/2025 in Brussels. The…
Domain(s): Agrifood
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Farming / food production
• Article # 420205
• Published on 20/11/25 at 15:01
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EU/Pesticides: "The Commission erred in law by extending the approval of active substances" (EU Court)

On 19/11/2025, the Court of Justice of the EU found the Commission had erred in law by extending the approval of active substances in several cases filed in 2022-2023 by NGOs PAN (Pesticide Action Network) Europe, Pollinis, and Aurelia Stiftung. Between 2022 and 2023, the Commission extended…
Domain(s): Agrifood, Environment
• Category(ies): European bodies, Policies & Regulation, Public health & nutrition, …
• Article # 420033
• Published on 19/11/25 at 17:46