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JOINT CONTRIBUTION | NOVEMBER 2024 - Double standards on our plates

14 Nov 2024

These measures will ensure the the adoption of a regulation on the mitiga- reciprocity of standards in the European mar- tion of the imported environmental and ket, encouraging a shift towards agroecologi- health impacts from our food and the intro- cal practices and improving transparency and duction of mirror measures on imports as part responsible consumption. [...] tion of effective mirror measures in the priorities of the EU institutions for the ■ Promote the definition of more ambitious next EU cycle and in the portfolio of future international standards on these issues, relevant commissioners. [...] Added to this need is the urgency of preserv- ing the progress made in recent years and implementing the announcements of the 9 • See Report from the commission to the European Parliament and the Council “Application of EU health and environmental standards to imported agricultural and agri-food products”, COM (2022) 226 final, June 3rd, 2022, p. [...] Dumping of agro- chemicals in Kenya has continued due to weak regulations that allow export of toxic The precise calculation of the additional weed killers and other pesticides that are costs related to the implementation of regulations within the EU in the beef banned on the European continent.” sector is even more challenging. [...] By using policy tools to incentivise The implementation of the geolocation more sustainable land and resource use in the requirement leads to costs related to the Global South, the EU would be actively inter- necessary equipment and the risk of private nalising responsibility for the externalised actors profiting from the production and costs of this industrial system that we cur- management of th.
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