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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11884
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Circular economy

Tackling food waste – guidelines to encourage gifts in kind

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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