Belgium will announce in the coming days the culling of 4,000 pigs in the confined area following the discovery of nine boars suffering from African Swine Fever (ASF), the country’s federal minister has said.

The European Commission is coming under growing pressure to close a loophole that is allowing large volumes of Ukraine poultrymeat to enter the EU without paying tariffs.

EU member states have broadly supported a proposal to renegotiate the bloc’s hormone-free beef quota so that a portion is reserved exclusively for US suppliers.

The European Commission has published the latest figures on EU soybean imports from the United States, showing that the country has surpassed Brazil to become the bloc’s main supplier of the commodity.

The initial trade results between the EU and Canada one year after the entry into force of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) show encouraging signs, the European Commission has announced.

Belgium will announce in the coming days the culling of 4,000 pigs in the confined area following the discovery of nine boars suffering from African Swine Fever (ASF), the country’s federal minister has said.

The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of 22 leading retailers and wholesalers across Europe have written to the Chair of the EU Agriculture Council, Austrian Agriculture Minister Elisabeth Köstinger “to express their intense concern at the idea currently being promoted by powerful multinational food processors that they need protection against retailers,” as discussions on the unfair trading practices (UTPs) continue in the European Parliament and Council.

EU member states have broadly supported a proposal to renegotiate the bloc’s hormone-free beef quota so that a portion is reserved exclusively for US suppliers.

The detection of African Swine Fever in Belgium has put western Europe on high alert for further outbreaks – what could it mean for the EU pig meat sector?

The impact of the policy shifts implemented by the 2013 ‘Ciolos’ CAP reforms are visible in domestic support data recently submitted by the EU to the World Trade Organisation.

The United Kingdom and the United States should abandon all tariffs on bilateral agricultural trade and also adopt a purely science-based approach to sanitary and phytosanitary issues under a new ‘model’ bilateral trade agreement, according to a new report published on Tuesday (September 18).

National delegations are gathering in Brussels to discuss new rules to protect farmers from unfair trading practices, while Foreign Ministers prepare high-level Brexit discussions taking place in Austria later this week.

The European Commission’s plans to simplify the registration process for new geographical indications (GIs), as part of the CAP reform process, are potentially damaging to the interests of third country producers, according to an international group campaigning to protect generic product names.