EU: Brussels step forward of the directive killing stables

Published 2023년 3월 17일

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The Council of EU environment ministers has reached a compromise agreement on a new directive to reduce industrial emissions, which for the first time covers livestock. However, the agreement has faced opposition from several countries including Italy and Denmark, who argue that the thresholds for farms have greatly reduced the environmental ambitions of the directive. Critics argue that the data used by the European Commission is outdated and that the directive is unfairly equating livestock farming with industrial activities.

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The Council of EU environment ministers, held on 16 March, reached a compromise agreement on the text of the new directive for the reduction of industrial emissions which for the first time also covers livestock. Italy is against: "We cannot accept the text - said the minister of the environment and energy security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin - because the thresholds for cattle are unacceptable to us". The text was negotiated throughout the day and an agreement was found thanks to some technical expedients. Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have accepted the compromise asking to record their disagreement with thresholds for farms "which greatly reduced the environmental ambitions" of the directive. Bulgaria abstained, France contested "questions of substance and method" but ultimately chose to support the text. Poland stressed that in future stages of negotiations with other European institutions, it is not willing to accept further concessions on livestock ...

Source: InformateAgrario