ACP agricultural exports and proposed changes to the EU Regulation on food and feed controls BackgroundIn May 2013, the EC put forward “proposals to change the current legislation governing all official controls in the food and agriculture... 11/05/2014
The EU financial instrument for fisheries is finally adopted Putting an end to a 5-year process to reform the CFP, on 16 April 2014 the European Parliament adopted the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EM... 11/05/2014
A leading EU canned tuna brand will only stock “responsibly sourced tuna” from 2015 Greenpeace acclaimed the commitment by a leading canned tuna brand, Oriental & Pacific, to only stock “responsibly sourced tuna” from 2015.The... 11/05/2014
EU is largest global importer of seafood products The first issue of the annual EU Fish Market Report provides a complete overview of seafood (wild caught and farmed products) consumption, trade an... 11/05/2014
EU and other major fishing nations sign a statement on global fishing capacity management At the end of a conference on fishing capacity organised by the EU in Thessaloniki (Greece), the EU and representatives from Colombia, Indonesia, J... 27/04/2014
Legal operators affected by EU blacklisting of Guinea, Belize, Cambodia for non-cooperation against IUU fishing Following a European Commission (EC) proposal, the Council of Fisheries ministers listed Belize, Cambodia and Guinea as countries not cooperating s... 27/04/2014
EC trade barriers report provides insights into agro-food sector priorities in future trade relations The European Commission (EC) has published its ‘Trade and investment barriers report 2014’, which looks at the key barriers faced in trade and inve... 22/04/2014
Lessons for the ACP from EU efforts to strengthen the functioning of sugar supply chains IntroductionAs part of the EU agreement of June 2013 on the abolition of EU sugar production quotas, the European Commission (EC) announced that, f... 16/04/2014
ACP sugar exports to the EU: Sugar quota abolition and the future of raw cane sugar co-refining by EU beet refiners IntroductionSince the implementation of EU sugar sector reforms, major changes have been taking place in the EU sugar sector. A number of EU sugar... 15/04/2014
Scope for future intra-ACP cooperation in the agro-food sector ECDPM has published a paper on the scope for deepening intra-ACP cooperation in support of agro-food sector transformation in ACP countries. Despit... 05/04/2014