Industrial emissions: The European Parliament wants to maintain the current regulations regarding livestock

At its session on July 11, the plenary session of the European Parliament adopted its position on the proposed revision of the directive on industrial emissions. With regard to livestock, the MEPs reject the approaches of the European Commission and advocate maintaining the current legislation. Consequently, according to MEPs, the industrial emissions directive should continue to apply to intensive poultry farms with more than 40,000 places and to intensive pig farms with more than 2,000 places for breeding pigs (of more than 30 kilos) or with more than 750 places for sows. Parliament does not want to include cattle farms in the scope of the directive. On the other hand, parliamentarians have underlined the importance of guaranteeing that productions from third countries meet similar requirements to those demanded of Community productions. The revision of the directive on industrial emissions seeks, among other things, to introduce rules to cut polluting emissions from large ...