The current policy for information and promotion for agricultural products has achieved good results but the Commission is convinced that the policy could be simplified and improved to better address the needs of the European and the world markets. A revised policy on promotion should help to make the assets of European agriculture better known [...]
In their vote in the plenary sitting in Strasbourg on 26 October 2011, Members of the European Parliament sought to restore the draft budget proposed by the European Commission (EC), which the Council of the European Union cut in July. Parliament’s position implies an increase in payments of 5.2% as compared to 2011 budget, resulting [...]
The European Court of Auditor’s report, Are the School Milk and School Fruit Schemes effective?, released today suggests that the EU School Fruit Scheme (EU SFS) is more effective than the EU School Milk Scheme (EU SMS). Although too early to properly evaluate the School Fruit Scheme, the report concludes that the EU SFS seems [...]
Today, the Commission published their vision for the Common Agriculture Policy towards 2020. The European Public Health and Agriculture Consortium (EPHAC) welcomes the European Commission’s recognition of the urgent challenges of climate change and increasing pressure on the world’s resources. However, EPHAC believes the proposals largely ignore public health and do not go far enough [...]
EPHAC believes the main focus of promotion funds shoud be to promote foods and themes that are in line with the EU 2020 strategy for sustainable and inclusive growth. EPHAC consultation response
MDP scheme faces cuts of over 360 million in 2012 – from €480m to €113.5m – to take account of the ruling delivered by the General Court in April. The ruling stated that volumes provided for the scheme “should come from intervention stocks and only marginal amounts should come from the open market”. The European Court [...]
Member States in the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) have suggested budget cuts across the line on CAP, and as part of this has suggested the EU School Fruit Scheme (SFS) budget cut from the current 90 million to 64 million. The European Commission proposed a continuous EU budget of 90 million Euro for [...]
On 16 June 2011, the European Public Health and Agriculture Consortium (EPHAC) organised the debate on the role of public health in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with high level participation from Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli, Professor Tim Lang from Centre for Food [...]
Presentations Why public health and sustainability should be at the center of agriculture policy Professor Tim Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London The challenge of Noncommunicable Diseases -integrating health and agriculture policy Dr Gauden Galea’s Director Division of Non-communicable diseases and Health Promotion, WHO Regional Office for Europe Tackling chronic disease and promoting [...]
***For immediate release*** 17 June 2011, Brussels Commissioners Dalli and Cioloş debate the Role of Public Health in the Common Agricultural Policy Yesterday, the European Public Health and Agriculture Consortium (EPHAC) welcomed the debate on the role of public health in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with high level participation by Commissioner for Agriculture and [...]
