Agri Politics
EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic has been asked for assurances that Brazilian beef can't find a route to the EU through Northern Ireland.
MEP Ciaran Mullooly has challenged Minister Martin Heydon on country-of-origin labelling and food-safety concerns surrounding Brazilian beef.
Mercosur beef imports
Controls on imported beef “are governed by EU legislation on official controls, and are graduated and risk-based”, said Martin Heydon.
European Commission
Issues identified in Brazilian imports have underscored the importance of on-the-ground inspections according to the European Commission.
Agri-Business
Fertiliser "availability and affordability" will be high on the agenda today at a high level EU meeting of government ministers today.
Beef
The phrase 'round the house and mind the dresser' may come to mind when critiquing the EU's back-and-forth decision making on the Mercosur Trade Deal.
Brazil will be able to resume exports to the EU once it shows "compliance" with EU rules on antimicrobial use in food-producing animals.
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The EU-Mercosur trade agreement will "help level the playing field for Irish exporters" according to a business organisation.
Francie Gorman, president of the IFA, has said that the associaiton's opposition to the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement 'remains absolute'.
After almost 30 years of negotiation, the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement enters into force today (Friday, May 1).
Sinn Féin MEPs have called on the EU Commission to scrap plans for the provisional application of Mercosur.
Mercosur
An Irish MEP has called on the government here to join a court action taken by Poland against the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement.
A senior EU official has acknowledged that more could have been done to reassure farmers about the EU-Mercosur trade deal.
Ireland's upcoming EU presidency provides a "huge opportunity" as discussions around the next CAP budget continue, the IFA has said.
Irish farmers should not be worried about either the Mercosur or the EU-Australia trade deals,...
Irish farmers should not be worried about either the Mercosur or the EU-Australia trade deals, according to Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary.
Paraguay became the final South American country to ratify the EU-Mercosur trade agreement yesterday (Tuesday, March 17).
Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon said his attention has turned to monitoring potential market impacts of the EU-Mercosur deal.
Beef imports to Ireland from Brazil have increased by more than 800% over the past 10 years, according to data released to an Aontú TD.
EU member states have officially adopted the safeguard regulation for agricultural products in response to the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement.
The EU Commission's move to provisionally apply the EU-Mercosur deal is "a profoundly undemocratic step", according to MEP Luke Ming Flanagan.
Dairy
European dairy trade association Eucolait said it "celebrates" the provisional application of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement.
