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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11422

31 October 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture
Copa concerned over air quality and ammonia emission ceilings

Strasbourg, 30/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - The air quality legislative package, approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday 28 October, leaves the level of methane emissions from ruminants unchanged but the farming sector remains concerned about the ceilings for ammonia emissions.

The livestock and fertiliser production sector is responsible for 90% of Europe's ammonia emissions. MEPs merely removed the sub-objectives for 2025 so as to allow greater flexibility for the member states, in...

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