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In mid-November 2017 the Government of Romania (GOR) approved an emergency measure, imposing new rules for farm-gate grain procurement.

In 2017, Romania maintained a balanced view regarding agricultural biotechnology.

Post forecasts that Romania’s walnut harvest in 2017 will decline by 3.2 percent from 2016 to 33,000 metric tons (MT), mostly due to unfavorable weather conditions.

FAS Bucharest considers a variety of trade data sets when reporting on Romanian market conditions and dynamics.

A shifting political landscape in the EU has led to fears that voting “against” import authorization of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops is becoming perilously close to a new norm.

On July 31, 2017, Romania’s Veterinary Authority confirmed the first detection of African Swine Fever (ASF) in a backyard herd of domestic pigs.

Updated import duties of Euro 5.16 per metric ton are applied on corn, sorghum and rye from August 8, 2017.

The EU28 grain harvest is now under way in most Member States.

In June 2017, the Romanian Parliament amended its May 2016 country of origin labeling (COOL) requirements for milk and dairy products.

On February 2, 2017, the European Commission launched a consultation on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to better understand where the current policy can be simplified....

Two studies conducted by Eastern European Members States (MS) have concluded that identically branded food products are being sold with lower quality in Eastern Europe than Western Europe.

Romania completed the process of transposing the EU Renewable Energy Directive in 2012.