After analysing a recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Farm Europe think-tank called on the European Commission on Wednesday 9 October to make meat names transparent.
On Friday 4 October, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that a Member State may not prohibit the use of terms traditionally associated with products of animal origin to designate a product containing plant proteins (see EUROPE 13497/21).
During the 2020 discussions on the Common Market Organisation (CMO), the EU institutions discussed the rules for the butchery and charcuterie sectors.
Farm Europe believes that the Commission must take the initiative again to ensure that the law applying to consumer information in the meat sector is brought into line with that already applying to the milk and dairy products sector. “Faced with the flood of alternative ultra-processed products on the shelves”, this legal interpretation by the Court should encourage the EU to put an end to double standards for meat and milk, argues Farm Europe.
Further details: https://aeur.eu/f/dsw (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)