As part of our annual congress in Bratislava CEFS today hosted a roundtable discussion on how the EU sugar sector's decarbonisation can support EU food and energy security. Speakers included MEP Alexander Bernhuber MEP (EPP, Austria), Dr. Andreas Schneider from the Cabinet of Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, Martin Pitorák, Director of Fuels and Energy at [...]
As part of our annual congress in Bratislava CEFS today hosted a roundtable discussion on how the EU sugar sector's decarbonisation can support EU food and energy security. Speakers included MEP Alexander Bernhuber MEP (EPP, Austria), Dr. Andreas Schneider from the Cabinet of Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, Martin Pitorák, Director of Fuels and Energy at [...]
On 18 May 2022 the Commission published its REPowerEU Plan. It identifies the scaling up of biomethane as key to reducing EU reliance on Russian gas and reiterates the target set in March: 35 billion cubic metres of EU biomethane production by 2030. The plan lists a set of actions to achieve this goal: an [...]
On Thursday, the ENVI and AGRI Committees of the European Parliament will vote on their draft report presenting their official reaction to the Farm to Fork strategy. While the first studies on the impact of the strategy launched by the Commission in 2020 show extremely worrisome trends, MEPs are planning to call for several additional [...]
The EU Commission has recently launched its Trade Policy Review. CEFS calls upon the EU to develop a policy that allows the EU sugar industry to compete on a sustainable level playing field globally. Sustainability has been at the heart of the EU sugar sector for a long time. However, most other sugar producing [...]
CEFS Webinar Trade Policy programme 17.06 Mark your calendar: Thursday 17 June, 11.30am CEFS invites key stakeholders and decision-makers to join the discussion on the case of sugar in the FreeTradeAgreements, with Member of the European Parliament Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Ms Rueda-Catry from the cabinet of Commissioner Dombrovskis and Paul Mesters President CEFS. The webinar will [...]
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