EU: The agri-food week in five minutes

Published 2023년 12월 15일

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The European Union Fisheries Ministers have reached an agreement on catches for 2024, with Spain set to increase its catches of hake and rooster in Iberian waters of the Atlantic. There are concerns over the rejection of the European Commission's initiative to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by 50%, as well as the lack of agreement on regulating new genetic editing techniques in agriculture. The rise in food prices continues to drive up the cost of living, with olive oil becoming especially more expensive and causing a decrease in consumption.

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In this week's news, we address the distribution of fishing quotas in the EU for 2024; we talk about the new CPI data; and we traveled to Rute to see its chocolate nativity scene, among other topics. We begin the review of the week with the agreement of the European Union Fisheries Ministers on catches for 2024. At its end-of-year meeting, the Fisheries Council agreed in Brussels on the Total Allowable Catches in the Atlantic and the fishing possibilities in the Mediterranean. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has celebrated the result of the negotiation, because next year the quotas will increase for many species of great interest to the fleet. Spain will increase its catches of hake and rooster in Iberian waters of the Atlantic. By contrast, in the Mediterranean Fisheries Ministers have cut days at sea for trawlers by 9.5 percent. A negative result for the fleet, but one that could be softened thanks to the compensation mechanism accepted by the ...

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