{"id":102903,"date":"2022-01-11T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=102903"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:41:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:41:44","slug":"france-to-strongly-back-commissions-deforestation-proposal-during-eu-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/france-to-strongly-back-commissions-deforestation-proposal-during-eu-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"France to strongly back Commission\u2019s deforestation proposal during EU presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

France will back the European Commission in fighting deforestation and defending a \u201chigh\u201d level of ambition when it takes on the French EU Council Presidency in January for six months, French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie told EU agriculture ministers on 13 December. EURACTIV France reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This announcement follows the European Commission\u2019s 17 November proposal<\/a> for a regulation to combat deforestation. The text aims to minimise European consumption of products linked to legal and illegal deforestation by making imports conditional on the absence of deforestation throughout the supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis proposal has the potential to be a game-changer and a turning point in the international fight against deforestation,\u201d stressed EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevi\u010dius at the meeting of agriculture ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Commissioner, there is an \u201curgent need to act\u201d as agricultural land expansion is linked to 90% of the world\u2019s deforestation, and according to a UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report, the world has lost more forest area than the EU over the past three decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the EU, which \u201cis partly responsible for the problem\u201d as a major consumer of materials and commodities produced on such land, is \u201cleading the way in addressing this problem\u201d by adopting a strict regulatory framework for the main products linked to deforestation like soy, beef, palm oil, timber, cocoa and coffee, the Commissioner added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo make substantial progress\u201d on this issue, he also assured that the EU executive would \u201cstrongly support the French presidency and delegations\u201d during the first half of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Denormandie, \u201cthis proposal is a key issue for the preservation of ecosystems, the fight against climate change and the preservation of our sustainable consumption patterns.\u201d France will also defend a \u201chigh\u201d level of ambition for the regulation proposed by the European Commission, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the minister warned about the importance of creating a \u201cclear and applicable mechanism for all stakeholders\u201d and of establishing a \u201ccommon and harmonised\u201d framework for the implementation of the regulation to guarantee its effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambiguity in the definition and rules set out in the text had to be avoided if the EU was really to be \u201cup to the challenge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defending the EU\u2019s agricultural model <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Linking climate and economic goals<\/a> will be one of France\u2019s priorities when it takes over the EU Council presidency, President Emmanuel Macron said in his 9 December speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was necessary to \u201cre-synchronise our economic agenda with the preservation of biodiversity,\u201d  he said while calling for a \u201cpush\u201d for greater reciprocity in international trade regarding environmental standards and ending imported deforestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Macron said it is necessary to \u201cdefend, at the European level, our high-quality agricultural model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are two of the country\u2019s main priorities regarding agri-food policy, as was reiterated by Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie at a press conference on 10 December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denormandie said France would commit to imposing so-called \u2018mirror clauses\u2019 on antibiotics used in livestock farming and for EU countries to harmonise the maximum residue limits of pesticides authorised for imported products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim is to create a \u201clevel playing field with regard to what enters the European market,\u201d the minister added. During the French presidency, the minister confirmed he intended to \u201cfight very hard against distortions of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On combatting imported deforestation, Denormandie announced the creation of an ad hoc working group composed of technical experts from the agricultural, forestry and environmental sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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France will back the European Commission in fighting deforestation and defending a \u201chigh\u201d level of ambition when it takes on the French EU Council Presidency in January for six months, French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie told EU agriculture ministers on 13 December. EURACTIV France reports. This announcement follows the European Commission\u2019s 17 November proposal for a regulation to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Denormandie said France would commit to imposing so-called 'mirror clauses' on antibiotics used in livestock farming or towards EU countries harmonising the maximum residue limits of pesticides authorised for imported products","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[6630,13087,19634,5820],"supplier":[2317,233,9149],"class_list":["post-102903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-agriculture","tag-climate","tag-deforestation","tag-wood","supplier-european-commission","supplier-food-and-agriculture-organization-of-the-united-nations-fao","supplier-french-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102903"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=102903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}