AgraFood Europe

摘要

The Commission will press ahead with its job in getting new CMOs authorised in the EU but has backed off telling member states how to do theirs; CM co-ex/stence guidelines have been attacked by a lawyer acting on behalf of five environmental and consumer NCOs; The EU has averted a threatened ban imposed by Russia on plant products imported from the EU, but Dutch potato exporters are still having problems in coping with the new procedures; The Commission is considering tax breaks for biofuels while legal warnings have been issued over 'absurd' biofuel target rules; BSE cases are still heading downwards, both in the UK and in other EU countries; Publication of UK subsidy data has revealed the biggest winners from the CAP, both companies and farms/estates; British farm incomes fell by 8 1 % in real terms last year after three previous years of growth Dairy and specialist poultry farms were the only ones to escape the income decline; enmark has announced details of a new market-driven milk quota exchange system; Battery cage layer systems are on the decline in Germany although there are more larger units; World wheat prices remain under pressure but the South American crop uncertainty is affecting soya markets; French cereal growers fear that the opening of intervention sales in land-locked central European countries and a cutback in refunds risk the accumulation of huge stockpiles.