EP Plenary session - The Commission communication on ensuring availability and affordability of fertilisers

EP Plenary session - Communication on ensuring availability and affordability of fertilisers

EP Plenary session - The urgent need for an EU strategy on fertilisers to ensure food security in Europe

Plenary session - EU fertilising products

Fertiliser production site - Production line  - Packaging and preparation for transport

Under the farm to fork strategy, part of the European Green Deal, the EU has set itself a double target: a 50 % reduction in the overall use of and risk from chemical plant protection products, and a 50% reduction in the use of more hazardous ones by 2030. The proposal tabled by the EC on 22 June 2022 would replace the 2009 sustainable use directive and has the following objectives: reduce the use and risk of chemical pesticides, in particular the more hazardous ones; increase the application of integrated pest management (IPM); increase the use of less hazardous and non-chemical alternatives to chemical pesticides for pest control; improve the availability of monitoring data; improve the implementation of legal provisions across all Member States to improve policy effectiveness and efficiency; promote adoption of new technologies, such as precision farming that makes use of space data and services (including geospatial localisation techniques).

Infoclip: Sustainable use of pesticides

2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP). This infoclip illustrates examples of modern agriculture in three different farms in Belgium, Poland and Spain. A Familly farm in Villers-le-Bouillet, Belgium, cultivating the land and raising livestock, a family farm cultivating grain in Minaya, in the region of Guadajara, Spain and a familly farm in Poland close to Tarnow, specialised in Soja.

Infoclip: 60 years of the CAP - modern agriculture examples (Belgium, Poland, Spain)

This infoclip aims to illustrate the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. As part of the 'Fit for 55' package, the proposal intends to ensure that the EU's climate objectives are not undermined by the relocation of carbon-intensive production outside the EU.The EU now seeks to phase out free allocations, and a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) would be introduced, requiring importers to purchase certificates equivalent to the weekly EU carbon price. The CBAM would initially apply to imports in five emissions-intensive sectors: cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, and electricity. The EP rapporteur Mohammed CHAHIM (S&D, NL) would like to extend the mechanism to cover organic chemicals, hydrogen and polymers. The footage shows cement, iron and steel, fertilizers, electricity, organic chemicals, hydrogen, polymers and the European Energy Exchange in Germany.

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