The European Union's strategy to reduce industrial emissions may need to be updated due to outdated data from 2016. This could potentially three times as many pig farms and nearly four times as many poultry farms as currently anticipated. The proposal, which aims to reduce emissions from industrial plants, including some of the largest EU livestock farms, is based on outdated data from a 2016 Eurostat survey. The most recent data from 2020 shows a significant increase in the number of farms that would be affected.