Agrifish Council in Luxembourg. EU farm ministers meeting in Luxembourg today and tomorrow (21 and 22 October), will discuss the Hungarian presidency’s draft conclusions on the post-2027 CAP, with member states still divided on key issues (see below).
Other items on the agenda include fishing quotas in the Baltic Sea for 2025 and a discussion on the challenges facing the EU food chain.
On the latter point, the Presidency will present a note highlighting the impact of animal and plant diseases, the lack of harmonisation in labelling, and different production standards in third countries.
Commissioners Janusz Wojciechowski and Stella Kyriakides will attend the meeting.
Plenary in Strasbourg. The Parliament is expected to agree on Wednesday (23 October) to the urgent procedure that will allow MEPs to swiftly approve the proposed delay of the EU’s anti-deforestation regulation (EUDR) at the next plenary session on 13-14 November, parliament sources told Euractiv.
For Wednesday’s vote to take place, the environment committee (ENVI) will first send a request to the parliament's president on Monday (21 October), who will then make an announcement on Tuesday (22 October).
On Monday, the ENVI committee will vote to open the interinstitutional negotiations on the Soil Monitoring Law and, on Tuesday, MEPs and the Hungarian presidency are expected to start the trialogues. On the same day, the plenary will exchange views with Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on the state of play regarding animal diseases.
There is another item to watch out for on Tuesday: MEPs will vote on their position on the 2025 budget, which reduces some of the small cuts proposed by the Commission and Council in the agriculture heading. MEPs have tabled 77 amendments to the report, but the compromise agreed in the Budgets Committee is likely to be supported.
Also to pencil in your agenda…
Eurostat will release new data on packaging waste on 24 October.
The European Biogas Association is organising the 2nd edition of the Biomethane Week, from 21 to 25 October, with the main events in the program expected to take place between 22 and 24 October
European farmers will hold their annual congress in Bucharest from 23 to 25 October in Bucharest. The Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and the current chair of the EU Agrifish Council, the Hungarian Agriculture Minister István Nagy, will attend.
