Research for AGRI : News – March 2018

Compiled by the AGRI sector of the Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies (Albert MASSOT MARTI)
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1. KEY DOCUMENTS

 EC:  A new, modern Multiannual Financial Framework for a European Union that delivers efficiently on its priorities post-2020 (Communication of 14.2.2018 – COM (2018) 98)

• Press release: EU long-term budget after 2020: European Commission sets out options – and their consequences
• Multiannual financial framework : debate on political priorities – Fact Sheets

European Council: Remarks by President Donald Tusk following the informal meeting of the 27 heads of state or government on 23 February 2018

Visegrad Group:  Joint declaration of the Ministers of Agriculture of the Visegrad Group and Croatia on the Commission Communication on The Future of Food and Farming

          IEG Policy:Rural development funds to be grant-based, financial instrument only as a plus – Visegrad group

European Parliament: DG IPOL – MFF Network (intranet documentation)

• Briefing – The European Council and the Multiannual Financial Framework
• Post-2020 EU budget reform must match EU’s future ambitions

EU Observer:

• Commission urges EU countries to pay more into budget
• Baltic states demand bigger EU budget
• EU leaders to kick off post-Brexit budget debate

IEG Policy : 

• Commission presents papers on next multiannual financial framework as a matter of urgency
• CAP budget could be cut by up to 30%
• Questioning higher input to EU budget and accepting CAP co-financing is meaningless
• ComAgri expertise to be used to cut farming spending to a minimum – Commissioner Oettinger
• Post-2020 CAP budget will be shielded from large cuts

Bruegel: EU budget, Common Agricultural Policy and Regional Policy – en route to reform?

ICMSA: Commission’s CAP 2020 Budget options are disappointing and will be ‘unacceptable to Ireland’

Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) : Any move to reduce CAP budget post 2020 must be vigorously opposed

Eur Activ:

• European Council Summit
• EU budget post 2020: Fortress Europe or a budget for working people?

Michel Dantin (FR): Communiqué de presse – Baisse du budget de la PAC : derrière la communication de la Commission se cache des non-dits et de vrais enjeux

 EC: A Europe that delivers: Institutional options for making the European Union’s work more efficient (Communication of 13.2.2018)

        EU Observer: 

• Juncker to speak out on post-Juncker EU
• ECB, Budget, EU elections This WEEK
• Juncker too tight in his EU suit
• EU leaders nix transnational lists, cool on ‘Spitzenkandidat’

        Politico: 

• Juncker: EU should be ready for ‘worst scenario’ in Italian election

EC: Flash Euro-barometer 2018 (60% of respondents to the latest Euro-barometer survey of public opinion on the CAP believe the farm policy benefits all citizens & not just farmers, according to a 208-page report published on 20 February)

EC: Safe, sustainability, quality: citizens share their views onf food and farming 

           IEG Policy: Majority of EU citizens wants a better position for farmers in the agri-food supply chain

USDA: USDA Agricultural projections to 2027

            Farm Policy News: USDA Releases 10-Year Agricultural Projections- Focus on Corn, Soybeans

FiBL & IFOAM:

• The World of Organic Agriculture 2018
• The World of Organic Agriculture 2017
• 2018 Year book
• FiBL Press release

IEG Policy:  EU organic food sales continue to grow rapidly

Eurostat: Organic farming statistics

OECD: Towards better Food Policies     

2. DOSSIERS

2.1. TOWARDS THE NEW CAP REFORM & THE MFF POST 2020 : LATEST DOCUMENTS:

EC: COM (2017) 713 of 29 November 2017. Press release: The Future of Food and Farming – for a flexible, fair and sustainable Common Agricultural Policy . Memo – Fact sheet: The future of food and farming – Communication on the Common Agricultural Policy post-2020.

EC – Phil Hogan blog: Building the Future of EU Food and Farming

European Parliament: Draft own-initiative report on the Future of Food and Farming Communication (Herbert Dorfmann report)

                IEG Policy: Direct payments to be calculated with EU-wide uniform method – Agriculture 

EC: Commissioner’s speech on ‘New CAP Delivery Model’ (ENRD Conference)

EC:  A new, modern Multiannual Financial Framework for a European Union that delivers efficiently on its priorities post-2020 (Communication of 14.2.2018) (see Section 1. Key Documents)

EC: Rural development under the microscope

EC: Harnessing Research and Innovation for FOOD 2030 (Conference report)

OECD- European Commission: 

• Workshop – Pathways to policy change on water in agriculture 
• Commissioner’s speech

                 IEG Policy: Future CAP will boost precision farming to improve sustainable water use

CAP Reform: 

• Why national co-financing of CAP Pillar 1 payments is needed in the MFF
• Brakes removed from voluntary coupled support

                 IEG Policy: Increased flexibility for coupled support is a “bad decision”

Tomas Garcia Azcarate Blog:  The consequences of the European budget hole

IEG Policy: 

• European elections may delay implementation of new CAP until 2022
• Questioning higher input to EU budget and accepting CAP co-financing is meaningless
• Farmers will need to file applications for reformed greening schemes
• New CAP rural development policy to consider federal structure of some EU countries         
• CAP should increase support for multi-actor initiatives
• Is direct subsidy really the best support for Young Farmers? 
• Excise on alcohol, tobacco and sugar could fund rural development goals – EU Commissioner
• Budget commissioner asks member states for flexibility in next EU financial framework
• Post-2020 CAP to receive at least 30% of EU budget – Oettinger 

Eur Activ:

• CAP reform – what about air quality?
• Oettinger: EU budget should increase despite Brexit funding gap
• The Brief – Run, MFFF, run

EEB – Bird Life: OPEN LETTER – Subject: 19 February Agriculture Council

EU Observer: Make budget cuts in farm and regional funds, the Dutch say

IEEP:

• Measuring the CAP’s environmental and climate performance
• Paper – Ideas for defining evironmental objectives and monitoring systems for a results-oriented CAP post 2020

                 IEG Policy: Environmental data collection should be boosted with CAP Pillar 1 funds

• Other IEEP publications: Publications

IDiv: 

• Fitness Check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
• The Future of food and farming in Europe: Is the EU heading towards a real improvement of the CAP?

                 IEG Policy: Scholars say Commission Communication on CAP shows little willingness to change

Présidence de la République Française (FR): Transcription du discours du Président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, à la nouvelle génération agricole

L’explicite (FR): Articulation du droit de la concurrence et de la politique agricole commune (PAC)

2.2. PREPARING THE 2018 US FARM BILL:

USDA: USDA 94^th Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum – The Roots of Prosperity

                Farm Policy News: The 2018 Outlook for U.S. Agriculture From USDA’s Chief Economist

USDA – ERS: 2018 Farm Sector Income Forecast

               Farm Policy News (US): 2018 U.S. Farm Income Forecast Released

               Farmdoc Daily: Will Farm Income Really Drop to a 12-Year Low in 2018?

USDA -ERS: Amber Waves Supermarkets, Schools, and Social Gatherings: Where Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Other U.S. Households Acquire Their Foods Correlates With Nutritional Quality

US National Farmers Union: 2018 America’s Farm & Food Bill

US House Committee of Agriculture:

• Public hearing on ‘The State of the Rural Economy’
• Opening Statements
• Testimony of Secretary Sonny Perdue

                Farm Policy News: House Ag Committee Hearing with Sec. Perdue: Trade Issues

IFPRI: 2018 Farm Bill: Protecting the U.S. cotton industry poses risks for developing countries

Agri-Pulse: Cotton, dairy deal eases path for new farm bill

                Farm Policy News (US): Cottonseed Included in Title I of the Farm Bill

IEG Policy: 

• Cotton, dairy farm program provisions in Senate budget cap agreement
• Senate leaders reach two-year deal on budget caps

                The Hill: Tiny but mighty: Farm bill programs punching above their weight

Farmdoc Daily : Farm Bill Review: Origins of Fixed Price Policy

2.3. BREXIT UPDATES:

a)GENERAL ISSUES

EC:   Speech by Michel Barnier following this week’s round of Article 50 negotiations (6th-9th February)

                IEG Policy: Barnier warns UK that Brexit transition period is not a given

                EU Observer: Barnier warms UK Brexit transition ‘not a given’

EC: 

• Task force on Art 50 negotiations – Documents
• Negotiating documents

               IEG Policy: EU would have “no alternatives” with UK on border control, mutual recognition

EC: Brexit preparedness

EC: Slides on International agreements and trade policy            

Parliament UK:

• Alternatives to a no-deal outcome in negotiations with the EU
• Brexit: Council Directives for Negotiations on Transition

EU Observer: 

• UK slams EU’s ‘bad faith’ on Brexit transition
• EU ties Brexit transition talks to divorce agreement
• EU plans sanctions if UK violates Brexit transition deal
• Conservative ‘buccaneering Brexit’ narrative unrealistic

Eur Activ: The Brief – Stand well back for the Brexit relaunch

National Board of Trade Sweden: New report: Recommendations for Swedish priorities in upcoming Brexit negotiations

            IEG Policy: Keeping the UK in the EEA would be best solution after Brexit – Swedish trade body

Irish Government: Minister Humphreys Publishes Copenhagen Economics study on Impacts of Brexit on Trade and the Economy

            Study: Ireland and the impacts of Brexit

Press reader:  Agri-food sector to be worst hit by hard Brexit

IEG Policy: Brexit will slash Irish agri-food production, trade and employment

IOD: Policy report –  Customising Brexit – A hybrid option for a UK – EU trade framework

Politico: 

• Brexiting bad: 5 ways the UK could go rogue
• Jeremy Corbyn calls for ‘new, strong’ single market relationship
• How Jeremy Corbyn changed Britain’s Brexit landscape
• Jeremy Corbyn rejects Brexit ‘fantasies’ in customs union bid
• EU issues Brexit ultimatum on Ireland
• Liam Fox: Customs union would be ‘betrayal’ of Brexit voters

Reuters: Chance of Chance of halting Brexit now close to 50:50, says leading campaigner

World Economic Forum: Brexit, the US, China and the future of global trade

The Guardian: No-deal Brexit would trigger wave of red tape for UK drivers and hauliers

Daily Mail: George Soros on the Brexit

Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute: Brexit: Transition mode d’emploi – Policy paper

b)AGRICULTURAL ISSUES

Parliament UK: 

• Trade in sugar post-Brexit inquiry

                       IEG Policy: UK Parliament launches inquiry on UK sugar trade post-Brexit

• Live Animal Exports
• Debate on an e-petition relating to ending the export of live farm animals after the UK leaves the EU
• Trade in Food contents

Gov UK: A Brighter Future for Farming (speech of  Secretary of State Michael Gove)

NFU: UK food & farming sector unites to highlight impact on home-grown production

EU Business: The Future of Farming – UK agricultural policy after Brexit

IEG Policy: 

• UK will remain in CAP until end-2020, transition paper confirms
• ‘Norwegian Model’ creates stable farm prices – but UK is ‘unlikely’ to follow it post-Brexit
• UK ‘should join Trans-Pacific trade pact’ to secure global markets
• UK targeting full WTO schedule submission by March 2019    
• Farm union losing patience over UK’s slow Brexit preparations
• Brexit to impact bottom line for UK egg producers, possible upside for poultry 

Sustainable Food Trust: Will Brexit and Trump’s wall change the face of farm labour?

The Independent: British fruit farmer cutting jobs and expanding in China as Brexit uncertainty hits UK agriculture

3. EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND OTHER EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

Council – Bulgarian Presidency:

• Programme of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council

                       IEG Policy: Bulgaria prioritises CAP simplification and discussions on next EU budget

Bulgarian Presidency EU:

•  Agriculture Minister Porodzanov steers a transparent discussion on the future of EU’s agricultural policy

EC: Published initiatives

EC:  Contribute Law Making (New ‘Better regulation’ portal and REFIT platform)

EC: Commission seeks expert views on plant proteins

EC: Fitness Check of General Food Law

EC: Monitoring EU agri-food trade (development in 2017)

EC – JRC:  Newsletter – February

EC:

• EU trade Transparency in action
• Slides on International agreements and trade policy

EC: Commission creates Task Force Rural Africa to focus on development role of food and farming

EP: Agri News on the Research4committees blog – 2018 issues

EP – Briefing: 

• Authorisation of pesticides in the EU with a focus on glyphosate
• Effort sharing regulation 2012 – 2030            

European Ombudsman: Decision in case 1769/2017/JAS on the European Chemicals Agency’s handling of concerns regarding the herbicide ingredient glyphosate

European Court of Auditors (ECA): EU auditors to examine organic-food control system

                IEG Policy: EU Court of Auditors examines organic-food control system

European Court of Justice: Judgment of Case 585/15 of 9 February (Sugar – production levies – Calculation)

EC: Commission implementing regulation (EU) 2018/183 (OJ 34, 8-2-2018) – Ban on formaldehyde

                IEG Policy: EU ban on formaldehyde in feed comes into effect end February

EC: Commission regulation (EU) 2018/213 (OJ L 41, 14.2.2018) – Use of bisphenol A as plastic food contact material

EC:

• Commodity Price Dashboard
• EU prices for selected representative products 
• Peaches and nectarines dashboard
• Tomatoes dashboard

EC: EU Milk Market Observatory

• Dairy  Dashboard
• Latest updates
• Prices / margins

EC: EU Meat Market Observatory

• Poultry meat Dashboard
• Sheep & Goat Dashboard
• Pig Dashboard
• Eggs dashboard
• Pigmeat latest updates
• Beef and veal dashboard
• Meat latest updates

EC: EU Sugar Market Observatory

• Dashboard
• Price reporting
• Monthly trade statistics
• Trade statistics

EC: EU Crops Market Observatory

• Cereals dashboard
• Oilseeds dashboard
• Cereals balance sheet
• Cereals trade
• Oilseeds balance sheet
• Oilseeds exports and imports
• Balance sheets for cereals, oilseeds, proteins and rice
• Balance sheet rice
• Olive oil dashboard

4. AGRI-FOOD ISSUES

IEG Policy: News

• French retail chief criticises Macron’s food price rise plan
• Macron defends Mercosur negotiations to French farmers
• Germany sets out strategy to end glyphosate use
  
• Brazil falls short of EU salted chicken quota
• Walmart’s Frank Yiannas identifies ‘mega trends’ for food safety professionals
• Better expiration date labelling could reduce food waste
• SAFE slams dual origin regulation
• Commission sets out EU dual origin labelling rules
• Canada unveils four options for mandatory front-of-package labels
• Commission working on assessing impact of CETA on trade flows – Commissioner Malmström
• Parliament evaluates impact assessment on EU-Australia -New Zealand trade deals
• EU sheep and goat farmers to get extra environmental payment – Parliament ComAgri 
• Brazilian livestock sector set to benefit from investment in corn ethanol production
• The EU will not compromise its own SPS standards through free trade agreements – Andriukaitis
• EU set to adopt food waste definition
• WTO members discuss farm policies during agriculture committee meeting

Agri Business Intelligence: Free report on  ‘Geographical Indications: agri-food heritage and global trade’ 

FAO:

• FAO in emergencies
• Infosylva No 3/2018

International Grains Council – IGC: Grain market Report

IFPRI: IFPRI Insights – IFPRI Strategy Refresh: 2018-2020

Pesticide Action Network Europe – Generations Futures: Industry writing its own rules (research report)

USDA -ERS:

• Amber Waves
• World Agricultural Trade Experiences Sizable Growth but Still Faces Barriers

US CRS:  

• Emergency Assistance for Agricultural Land Rehabilitation
• Enforcement of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Select Legal Issues

The Hill: Regulatory restructure of biotech is critical to the future of US agriculture

Greenville Journal: The production, sale, and consumption of local food brings significant economic and health benefits to communities. But the next step is securing greater accessibility for all, including underserved populations

INIA:

• Valuation of agrifood SMEs. Lessons to be learnt from the stock market
• Crop insurance demand in wheat production: focusing on yield gaps and asymmetric information
• Spanish wines in the US market: What attributes do US consumers look for in Spanish wines?

Emerald Insight: Imperfect information and participation in insurance markets: evidence from Italy

Choices Magazine (AAEA): Rural Exposure to Pension Reductions

SAFE (Safe Food Advocacy Europe): Webpage & News

 American Journal of Agricultural Economics: Advance articles

 European Review of Agricultural Economics: Advance articles

 Eur Activ: Country of origin food labelling to be voluntary, but not always 

The Washington Post: America has little to fear from a China-centered world

Reuters: China seeks to rejuvenate countryside with 2018 rural policy

The Guardian: Rise of mega farms: how the US model of intensive farming is invading the world

Daniel Guéguen: International law and secondary legislation: uncharted territory…until now

The Grocer: Morrisons reiterates welfare commitment after El Pozo scandal

Bain & Company: Indian Farming’s Next Big Moment: Farming as a Service

Farm Policy News (US): Farm Groups Concerned About Additional U.S. Trade Restrictions- China Agricultural Retaliation

Farmdoc Daily (US): 

• Hog Prices Increase, But So Do Feed Costs
• Implied Probabilities for Corn and Soybeans Prices in 2018
• How Do I Finance the Growth of My Operation?

Kantar World Panel: Newsletter – Consumer Insights Num 141 & 142

Gro Intelligence:

• Gro Intelligence Weekly
• China Uses Sorghum to Send a Message to the US
• North American Wheat Struggles Open Door for Argentina
• Argentine Beef Industry Primed for Revival

 Global Meat: News

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Dairy Reporter: News

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The Beef / Dairy Site: Newsletter

DBV (DE): Vereinfachung und Modernisierung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik – DBV-Position zum „Agrarantrag 4.0“

Salon International de l’agriculture (FR): Web page

Wiki-agri (FR): Le salon de l’agriculture, vitrine d’un secteur en crise

Journal de l’environnement (FR): Spécial Salon de l’agriculture

Michel Dantin (FR): Lettre info

FranceAgriMer (FR): Web site & Actualite

• Céréales
• Fruits et légumes
• Baromètre de confiance des fruits et légumes frais

Revue Laitière Française (FR): Newsletter

Agriculture Stratégies (FR): Projet de loi agricole : Et si les solutions étaient plutôt du côté européen?

Magazin (FR): L’Agriculture urbaine: Semer dans la ville

Agrisalon (FR): À la une

Ouest – France (FR):

• Fraude massive. Des milliers de vaches fantômes aux Pays-Bas
• Vaches fantômes (2) : 2 100 élevages bloqués aux Pays-Bas
• « Zéro résidu de pesticides » : un nouveau label pour les fruits et légumes frais

Le Journal du Centre (FR): Prix agricoles : la FNSEA dénonce une “incohérence politique majeure”

Le Monde (FR): Protectionnisme : « Trump donne les clés du monde à la Chine »

Opinion Internationale (FR): Tous les chemins mènent à Pékin

Les Échos (FR): Les magasins de producteurs prennent racine

The Conversation (FR): Sortir les producteurs laitiers de l’impasse 

La coopération agricole (FR):

• La démocratie coopérative au quotidien
• Les coopératives, d’abord des sociétés de femmes et d’hommes
• Pas de bonne gouvernance sans formation permanente

Paysan Breton (FR): Dossier spécial mammite

5. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Science Magazine: Toward nitrogen-fixing plants

Water, environmental, and agricultural resources economics (WEARE): Publications

Science for Environment Policy:  Antibiotic resistance genes traced from manure to soil and water on Finnish farms

Irish Examiner: Ireland: Nitrates derogation brings many new farm rules

Waterworld: China’s 13th Five Year Plan: What Role Will Wastewater Play?

Foro Ambiental: Water quality of the main tributaries of the Paraná Basin: glyphosate and AMPA in surface water and bottom sediments

NZ Herald: The five biggest risks facing NZ this year

Gouvernement Français – Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire (FR):  Agriculture et énergies renouvelables : un levier essentiel pour la transition énergétique

6. OTHER DOCUMENTS

World Economic Forum: Mapping Global Transformations

The Wonk: The EU Subsidiarity Task Force : changing the definition

The German Marshall Fund (GMF): U.S. Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region under President Trump: Implications for the European Union

IEG Policy: 

• Council ‘behind-closed-doors’ approach on EU legislation amounts to ‘maladministration’
• US, EU and Japan to challenge Chinese data transfer rules at WTO: Report

European Ombudsman: Recommendation of the European Ombudsman in case OI/2/2017/TE on the Transparency of the Council legislative process

The Economist: Insider trading has been rife in Wall Street, academics conclude

Daniel Guéguen – Blog Activ: International law and secondary legislation: uncharted territory … until now 

CESifo Economic Studies: Advance articles

The Review of Economic Studies: Advance articles

European Review of Economic History: Volume 22, Issue 1 –  Advance articles

ECDPM: Weekly compass (Africa- EU relationship) – 27 February

Borderlex: Newsletter

7. EVENTS

SD & EPP: New standards in wine sustainability and transparency to consumers (6 March)

ELO: 2018 ELO Innovation Conference: Farm Data and How to use it (7 March)

European Committee of the Regions:  Changing the rules of international trade, a necessary condition for facing the challenges of agriculture, food and planet  (8 March)

ELO: 2018 European Tree of the Year – Award Ceremony (21 March)

Forum for the Future of Agriculture (FFA): FFA 2018 (27 March 2017)

Public policy exchange: 2nd Symposium on the Future of Sustainable Agriculture in the EU: Assessing the Role of Pesticides and Biocides (26 June)

With acknowledgements to IEG Policy, Politico, CAP Reform.eu, Euractiv, Centre d ‘études et de prospective, Illinois.edu, FranceAgriMer and Tomás Garcia Azcárate (EAGRA)