#Act4 AnimalsEU More than a year after the end of the EU-Mercosur negotiations, the EU finally published the related Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA). The document, which was supposed to provide guidance to EU negotiators, confirms the agreement will lead to further intensification of animal agriculture in the region. EU-Mercosur trade agreement will fuel intensification of animal agriculture, says EU assessment 22 July 2020
#Act4 AnimalsEU Faced with strong opposition, MHP, the main Ukrainian poultry meat company exporting to the EU, has withdrawn its application for a grant from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). No European money for Ukrainian poultry company 29 October 2019 Eurogroup for Animals Press Release
#Act4 AnimalsEU Cleaning up this sector would be good for the climate – the five largest meat producers emit higher levels of scope one and two greenhouse gases than Exxon, Shell or BP, according to GRAIN (a think tank and activist group) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). Environmental impact of meat analysed from investment perspective 11 July 2019
#Act4 AnimalsEU The EU and Mercosur – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay – are close to concluding their trade agreement after 20 years of negotiations, but from an animal welfare perspective, the text on the table is extremely worrying. Why the EU-Mercosur agreement is bad news for European animals 26 June 2019 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU The EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA), entered in provisional application in January 2016 and came fully into force in September 2017. Eurogroup for Animals in Kyiv to discuss lack of progress on animal welfare 26 November 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU Last week, the European Parliament published a draft recommendation allowing the Council of the EU to grant new trade preferences to China that would serve as a compensation for a lost WTO dispute on poultry meat preparations. Chinese poultry meat preparations likely to get cheap access to EU markets without consideration for animal welfare 24 September 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU After the farmers’ unions and the poultry industry, twelve Member States have written to the Commission to express concerns about its coming offer on market access for beef imported from Mercosur countries. 12 Member States write to defend Animal Welfare Standards in beef imports 2 October 2017 Eurogroup for Animals
