The European Commission reaffirms commitment to EU’s green goals in first food security meeting

Published 2022년 3월 10일

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The European Commission, despite concerns over food shortages due to the Ukraine conflict, remains committed to the EU's sustainable food goals. It recently formed an expert group, the European food security crisis preparedness and response mechanism (EFSCM), to address food supply chain issues. The group's first meeting discussed addressing coordination challenges in the agri-food sector, particularly in light of potential trade disruptions. The Commission, however, rejected the idea of revising the agri-food part of the EU's Green Deal. The meeting also highlighted urgent issues like declining animal feed and seed supplies, and the need for relaxed EU rules on pesticides and GMOs for sourcing from countries like the US. The Commission's stance on these proposals remains undecided.

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The European Commission stood firm in its resolve to forge ahead with the EU’s sustainable food goals in the first expert meeting on food security this week, despite growing fears around food shortages caused by the war in Ukraine. The expert group on the European food security crisis preparedness and response mechanism (EFSCM) came together for the first time on Wednesday (9 March), ahead of the originally scheduled kick-off meeting on 23 March. The group was set up as the main novelty in the context of the contingency plan for food supply and food security in times of crisis, adopted last November under the EU’s flagship food policy, the Farm to Fork strategy. The platform brings together EU member states’ representatives with other relevant agri-food stakeholders to discuss food security in the bloc and deal with future emergencies or crises that emerge in relation to the food supply chain. “I firmly believe the risks to food security in the EU can be contained if we all ...

Source: Euractiv