The European Commission presented its report to the EU Council on 3 June indicating that there is “room for manoeuvre” to apply reciprocity of EU environmental and health standards to imported agricultural products in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules (see EUROPE B12965A22).
Marc Fesneau, the French Minister of Agriculture, stressed that the EU “will have nothing to gain if the higher standards that apply to our farmers ultimately result in a drop in our production and an...