The European Commission recently unveiled a draft implementation decision to grant nine EU member states, including France, derogations to help livestock farmers deal with the consequences of drought (see EUROPE 12077).
This was explained on Monday 27 August by MEP Michel Dantin (EPP, France), confirming that the subject of drought would be raised in the next meeting of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee on 29 and 30 August.
The derogations proposal for livestock still...