Brussels reports this Monday of the launch of a specific working group to strengthen the control of agri-food imports to the European Union, to guarantee that production from third countries meets the requirements in terms of food safety, feed and pesticides.
This new working group, according to the Europa Press Agency, will focus especially on food and feed safety, pesticide residues and coordinated EU monitoring actions on specific imported products. In addition, it seeks to achieve greater harmonization of import controls across the EU, develop recommendations for joint actions between the Commission and Member States and identify where additional administrative or regulatory measures are needed to strengthen controls.
Community services argue that import controls are crucial to verify that food and feed meet the relevant requirements and emphasize that EU rules apply “to all products sold in the EU, whether domestically produced or imported.”
Information that comes just in the week in which professionals in the agricultural-livestock sector are calling for demonstrations in most Spanish provinces. In Salamanca the first of the mobilizations took place by beekeepers this Monday.
