Prior to the granting of mandates and guidelines by the Council of the EU to the Commission to negotiate free-trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand, the European Parliament agriculture committee’s rapporteurs for opinion have, in opinions to be put to the vote in committee at the start of October, called for sensitive agricultural products to be properly protected.
Éric Andrieu (S&D, France) points out that Australia “has a very competitive, export-focused agricultural...