By an overwhelming majority (453 votes for, 57 against and 123 abstentions), MEPs voted in Strasbourg for the draft European regulation to put an end to “
imported deforestation”
.
Proposed by Brussels in November 2021, the text aims to ban imports of beef, soy, palm oil, cocoa, coffee and wood when these products come from cultivated land on soil where tropical forests have grown. been burned.
“Parliament has extended the list of products concerned to corn, rubber
(extracted from the rubber tree)
, leather, poultry and derived products.
There was an alliance with the European agricultural world which no longer wanted unfair competition caused by price dumping”
, rejoices Pascal Canfin, President of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety at the European Parliament.
This is a personal victory for the MEP who has been defending this dossier for three years, but also for France…
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