The ministers of agriculture of some 15 EU countries said, on Monday 18 July, that the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) should not be reopened.
Marc Fesneau, the French Minister for Agriculture, spoke about this issue at the EU ‘Agriculture’ Council.
The objective of our approach is twofold: to welcome the WTO declaration adopted at the 12th Ministerial Conference (in mid-June) and “to alert the European Commission to the...