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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
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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