Column ¦ IDM
June/July 2020 ¦ international-dairy.com · 29
Mandatory origin labelling for certain
products will also be proposed as part of
the Farm to Fork strategy. The European
dairy industry is convinced that very strict
rules for voluntary origin labelling are the
only way to meet the information expectations
of quite some consumers and to
guarantee at the same time the functioning
of the Single Market.
If you know, that Frans Timmermans,
the ‘European Green Deal leader’ blames
modern agriculture for the covid19 pandemic
and that he claims that ‘large intensive
farm operations supply poor quality
food’, the direction becomes very clear.
“European Green Dairy Deal”
In a meeting (the first physical meeting after
the covid19 ‘shutdown’) with EU Agricultural
Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski,
we asked for a ‘EU Green Dairy Deal’, a
sectorial strategy: dairy represents 15%
of the EU agri-food sector and has a very
specific profile in terms of environmental,
social and economic sustainability.
EDA Secretary General, Alexander Anton (right), explained the EU dairy industry
point-of-view to EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski
Based on our full commitment and the
essential work carried out already by our
sector, dairy is ideally positioned to serve
as a model for other parts of our agrifood
sphere.
And such a sectorial approach would
help to align the competing objectives in the
framework of a complete analysis and to build
a coherent strategy that will further boost our
dairy sustainability in Europe and beyond.
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