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The first farm Council under the Dutch presidency ended after only four hours on Monday, with ministers formally adopting the Commission proposal to change the financial support system in the [...]

Companies marketing new types of genetically modified plant will be forced to indicate that their products have been altered, if a new proposal adopted on Wednesday by the Commission is [...]

EU farm ministers have agreed new rules for cattle identification and beef labelling which would require all member states to operate systems allowing every piece of beef to be traced [...]

The Dutch Presidency is hoping for a broad agreement on beef labelling at next week's Farm Council despite the fact that member states are split over the issue of whether [...]

COMMISSION TO STUDY TWO DRAFT REGULATIONS ON FOOD MARKETING The long-awaited Commission proposals on food quality 'labels' and the protection of specific indications of geographic origin are likely to be [...]

MEPs claimed victory on Thursday after reaching a long-awaited compromise deal with EU governments on labelling of animal feed. The new laws require the exact ingredients of compound feedstuffs to [...]

The row over genetically modified (GM) food took a further twist this week as a leading UK consumer group condemned the British government's independent food watchdog, the Food Standards Agency, [...]

The European Commission on Thursday put forward a proposal to force food companies to put a full list of ingredients on their products, in a bid to provide better information [...]

Senior diplomats from EU countries will debate new labelling laws for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for the first time next Wednesday, at a meeting of the EU's Committee of Permanent [...]

The US administration gave early signs on Monday of a rough ride ahead for EU legislators, who are finalising new rules for keeping track of genetically modified foods all along [...]

Following agreement by the meat sector represented under Interbev, the national interprofessional association for livestock and meat, the various French ministries have published a joint agreement governing the labelling of [...]

New proposals for the labelling and traceability of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were unveiled by the European Commission this week, ending months of delay and speculation. Under the new rules, [...]

New rules for the labelling and traceability of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) may be proposed by the European Commission on July 25, rather than July 18, officials said this week. [...]

The European Commission on Thursday defended its plans to label GM products and trace them all along the supply chain against harsh criticism from trading partners and industry that the [...]

A serious row has broken out between the European Parliament and EU member states and industry groups over labelling of animal feed. Meeting in Strasbourg on Thursday, MEPs decided to [...]

EU scientists have called into question the 1% threshold for labelling which the EU applies to genetically modified (GM) soya and maize varieties approved under Directive 90/220. This 1% threshold [...]

Canada won a huge new market for its 'ice wine' product this week after EU states failed to vote down a European Commission proposal allowing its sale in the Union. [...]

MEPs were this week locked in battle with EU member states over animal feed labelling, after the European Parliament's agriculture committee this week rejected watered-down proposals from ministers. The labelling [...]

French beef industry representatives agreed on January 25 to extend the national system of beef labelling in a bid to calm consumers' fears of BSE. The annual meeting of the [...]

Clear labelling of all foods containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), and their pre-market approval by government, was called for this week by leading experts from the EU and US. In [...]

European parliamentarians lent their support this week to the compulsory labelling of animal feedstuffs, as proposed by the European Commission. MEPs approved the legislation for detailed labelling of feed contents [...]

New and more complicated rules for the labelling of eggs were put forward this week by the European Commission. The mooted scheme would replace the present voluntary arrangement with a [...]

Beef labelling: Further discussions took place on the EU beef labelling scheme. Intervention: The reduction in the beef intervention price on July 1 under the Agenda 2000 reforms will mean [...]

Members of the European Parliament this week plunged the Commission's beef labelling scheme into disarray by rejecting key elements of the Commission's proposal in a vote in Strasbourg on Thursday. [...]

Plans to introduce EU-wide beef labelling rules are on target for coming into force in September this year, confounding fears that lengthy disputes between the European Parliament and member states [...]

The European Parliament this week pressed for comprehensive EU wide beef labelling rules to come into force as early as September this year, in its first full vote on the [...]

The Portuguese Presidency of the EU is optimistic that it can broker informal agreement on future EU beef labelling rules, when EU farm ministers meet in Luxembourg next week. Also [...]

The Portuguese Presidency of the EU is confident of striking a deal for EU wide beef labelling rules, after a meeting this week with member state officials in the Special [...]

A '3-D' label has been launched in Germany to identify the origin of domestically produced poultrymeat, the Central Marketing Association for German Agriculture (CMA) reports. The D/D/D mark indicates that [...]

The government, EU, and international bodies are not fully prepared for their critical role in creating a framework for delivering quality information and genuine consumer choice on genetically modified (GM) [...]

EU governments found common ground on future beef labelling rules at Monday's EU Agriculture Council meeting in Brussels. While there was no consensus on the finer details of what should [...]

The European Commission has adopted a proposal calling on the compound feed industry to label feed ingredients in greater detail. 'It is appropriate - at this stage - to impose [...]

The European Commission on Wednesday approved a Community logo for organic food and farm products. The logo, according to a Commission statement, 'will allow producers to increase awareness amongst consumers [...]

EU national experts have backed Commission plans to impose labelling requirements on food containing genetically modified ingredients. The European Commission's proposal will require labelling for products where any single ingredient [...]

Food products on the EU market are to be exempt from GM labelling requirements if the separate ingredients contain less than 1% GM material, and if the GM trace can [...]

The influential Spanish small farmers' union (UPA) says it has asked the government to introduce 'double labelling' of fruit and vegetables in the shops to stop middlemen taking unreasonable margins, [...]

EU labelling plans could reduce returns for Irish beef, a report by the Irish state research agency Teagasc and University College Dublin has warned. The report claims that country of [...]

The European Commission announced this week that it will review the trademark-protected use of the label 'Parma' for ham produced in Canada. This follows a complaint lodged on May 3 [...]

Italy has introduced new labelling for olive oil, but the EU is reported to be opposed to the new designation. Legislation was published in the government's Official Gazette on September [...]

Environmental organisations have attacked labelling requirements for food products containing genetically modified (GM) soya or maize ingredients which entered into force in the EU this week. Both Greenpeace and Friends [...]

The compulsory labelling of all foods containing genetically modified soya and maize is a step closer. The UK food industry is currently being consulted on new regulations to implement Europe-wide [...]

New Zealand and Australian health ministers have put off a decision on mandatory labelling of genetically modified foods that are substantially equivalent to conventional products until the end of the [...]

The Commission has this week approved labels designed to indicate to consumers which EU food products are covered by regulations tying them to a geographical region or particular local manufacturing [...]

British feed manufacturer Dalgety is to introduce percentage ingredient declaration to its new season range of dairy, beef and sheep compound feeds, making it the first major feed compounder in [...]

Animal feed manufacturers in the EU are preparing themselves for a possible new law obliging them to label products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), in line with those agreed two [...]

EU farm ministers this week gave their backing to legislation on labelling genetically modified (GM) foods which will indicate whether or not a product contains a GM soya or maize [...]

GERMANY A national 'eco' label for organic food is to be introduced in Germany, thanks to the efforts of the Central Marketing Association for Agriculture (CMA) and the Association for [...]

The battlelines over the raw agricultural ingredients of the increasingly popular spirit drink vodka could be weakening, after the Finnish EU Presidency tabled a compromise proposal on Monday. The European [...]

Britain's Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) launched its 'Welfare Labelling' report* on Wednesday this week. This calls for increased information to be provided to the public about the farming systems [...]

Vodka should only be named as such if it is made from cereals or potatoes, five member states argued during Monday's meeting of the Special Committee on Agriculture. Lithuania, Estonia [...]