New EU rules for “organic wine” have been agreed in the Standing Committee on Organic Farming (SCOF), and will be published in the Official Journal in the coming weeks.
The government’s controversial ‘red tape challenge’ is progressing; Defra and the NFU have asked farmers to contribute to the information gathering stage, however it remains unclear what their input will be used to achieve.
Copa-Cogeca expressed major concerns today about new EU reports evaluating the impact of land use change on greenhouse gas emissions relating to biofuel demand in 2020, warning they are unreliable.





