11/07/2023 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 11 July, the European Parliament decided to object to the European Commission’s delegated act concerning the production rules applicable to organic sea salt. The European Parliament (468 votes in favour of the objection, 151 against and 17 abstentions) thus followed the position of the rapporteur, Martin Häusling (Greens/EFA, German). The European Parliament considers that the Commission is encouraging the use of modern technologies, but that for the production of organic labelled rock salt, “the restrictions on advanced mining technologies are stricter than their environmental impact merits” and that they would make the production of organic table salt unattractive and result in a low availability of organic rock salt on the European market (see EUROPE 13211/25). (LC)