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This report is intended to supplement the FAS U.S. Mission to the EU’s Food & Agricultural Import Regulations and Standards (FAIRS) report with Italy-specific information.

At the end of January 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron presented a roadmap for future French agricultural policy and has proposed a new law to forward this vision.

On February 13, 2018, Russia notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of draft requirements for imported rabbit semen and the corresponding form of a unified EAEU veterinary certificate....

This report is an addendum to the EU FAIRS report – E17080. It lists the Dutch import regulations and standards that are not harmonized within the EU or where the Netherlands varies with the EU.

According to Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), Russia’s headline consumer price index (CPI) reached a record-low 2.5 percent in 2017, down from 5.4 percent in 2016.

Organic agriculture in Bulgaria is developing rapidly due to generous EU subsidies, higher local purchasing power and growing consumer demand.

The European Commission (EC) has an active policy of exporting its standards on animal welfare, which are anchored in the European Treaties.

In December 2017, the European Commission published a "roadmap" outlining its intention to prepare legal acts needed for EU accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement....

As a result of the EU’s new rules on dietetic foods, applicable since July 2016, a whole range of products carrying dietetic suitability statements needed to be re-labeled and/or reformulated.

“Genome editing” has been singled out as an innovative biotechnology that is to be nurtured and supported by the UK government as it prepares to depart the EU.

The organic food market in the European Union (EU) is booming.

Since its 2004 European Union (EU) accession, Lithuania has consistently changed its regulations to harmonize its national laws with EU food and agricultural regulations and standards.