Lobby prevails: EU is rowing back on organic regulation of agriculture. Environmental experts are horrified.
But apparently the agricultural lobby has the upper hand. Greenpeace's EU agriculture representative in Brussels, Marco Contiero, is concerned about the proposed measure. "Farmers are in dire straits, but these proposals do little to fix these," he says. "The last shreds of environmental protection have been removed from EU agricultural policy," he adds. "To fix these, but remove some of the environmental protection in EU policy, only remove the last shred’s"