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The European Union follows a complex, rolling system of review for use of active ingredients and Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) in food.
On June 2, 2020, the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) issued EEC Collegium Decision No. 71, amending its temporary ban on exports of some food products from the EAEU to exclude soybeans...
COVID19 impact/mitigation update: On June 10, 2020, Germany announced follow-up rules that will allow for easier entry of seasonal agricultural workers into Germany.
In May 2020 France notified the European Commission of its intention to delist in-vitro random mutagenesis with chemical or physical agents to comply with French Council of State’s February 2020...
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Bulgaria: Wine Market Update

Bulgaria’s 2019 grape crop declined by nine percent from 2018, reaching 178,000 metric tons (MT). As a result, year-on-year wine output dropped by over 12 percent.
On June 5, 2020, Poland’s Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) officially notified an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak on a 70-head pig farm in the Lubelskie Province in eastern Poland.
After a series of coronavirus (COVID-19) detections on Dutch mink farms, the government has announced its intention to responsibly cull the inventories of the infected farms...
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Russia: Food Processing Ingredients

The Russian food processing industry is growing, driven by strong government support for domestic agricultural production and by an ambitious national goal of increasing food exports by 70 percent...
Attaché Report (GAIN)

Germany: German Farmers Protest Negative Narrative

On May 28, 2020, several hundred farmers protested in multiple German cities in response to the Minister of the Environment’s presentation of the “State of Nature in Germany “ report...
On May 20, 2020, the European Commission announced the publication of its Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy, which contains a roadmap for enhancing food and agricultural sustainability by 2030 under the...
After a rather dry winter, abundant precipitations and mild temperatures prevailing since mid-March significantly improved grain crop conditions and secured record yields.
Since late April, six mink farms at eight locations in the Netherlands have identified mink infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19).