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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11884

17 October 2017
Contents Publication in full By article 15 / 31
SECTORAL POLICIES / Circular economy
Tackling food waste – guidelines to encourage gifts in kind
Brussels, 16/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 16 October, the European Commission published guidelines to encourage food donations in the EU, as part of the fight against food wastage – one of the major battlegrounds in the EU's action plan on the circular economy of December 2015.

With this move, the Commission intends to help to lift persistent obstacles to the recovery of safe and edible foods and their redistribution to people in need by charity organisations - in particular, obstacles related to the interpretation of...

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