On Thursday 19 April, the European Parliament approved, by 466 votes to 124 with 50 abstentions, the text of the new regulation on the production and labelling of organic products which was the result of a compromise between institutions end June 2017 (see EUROPE 11908).
During the debate in plenary, the rapporteur, Martin Häusling (Greens/EFA, Germany), pointed out that it had taken four years of discussion to reach an agreement and no fewer than 18 trialogues. The text has still to be...