Open warfare in European agriculture: The EU legalizes the 'fraud' of labeling and allows the entry of products from Western Sahara

Published 2025년 11월 27일

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The European Parliament has given the green light to a controversial rule that prioritizes the entry into the EU of fruit and vegetable products from Western Sahara with a special status, giving them preferential treatment as if they were foods from Morocco.

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The main European organizations of fruit and vegetable producers do not rule out future mobilizations or other measures due to this ratification of the agreement, which represents fruit and vegetable producers, consider the agreement between the European Commission and Morocco to be extremely alarming. This agreement allows the production of the Sahara to benefit from the tariff advantages that Moroccan products already enjoy in the community market, as well as the new draft delegated Regulation presented by the EC on origin labeling. The European Commission has, in favor of Morocco, circumvented the two rulings of the Court of Justice of the EU of October 4, 2024, and has approved, in October 2025, on the one hand, the modification of a part of the EU Association Agreement with Morocco, which will allow the productions of Western Sahara to benefit from the tariff advantages included in said Agreement, as if they were Moroccan territory. And on the other hand, it has proposed a ...
Source: Agromeat

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