The French Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, on Thursday 7 April strongly criticised the proposal to impose pollutant emission thresholds on farms considered industrial.
This proposal revising the 2010 Industrial Emissions Directive has also been criticised by Spain and Copa-Cogeca (see EUROPE B12928A21, B12926A2).
The Commission has proposed to extend the scope to cattle, pig and poultry farms with more than 150 ‘livestock units’ (i.e. 150 adult cows, 10,000 chickens, 500...