Deforestation: it's “pressing” to clear up the “ambiguity” on soy, in accordance with feed producers

by AI | 13.Sep 2024 | Europe in short AI

The provision of assured deforestation-free soybeans for French farmers is vulnerable to being affected by the Fee’s delay in specifying import standards, warned a French union representing livestock feed producers.

Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner studying “Deforestation, extremely flammable soy” as they protest in opposition to the federal government’s inaction on imported merchandise linked to deforestation, on Could 31, 2021, on the port of Saint-Nazaire, the biggest soy import port in France. (Picture: Loïc Venance / AFP)

Paris – The French animal feed trade affiliation (Snia) known as on Thursday for pressing clarification of the European « advanced and unclear » situations set for the importation of soybean assured to not come from deforestation, reporting a attainable « extra price of two.2 billion euros on the European stage ».

This European Regulation (RDUE) goals to ban, from 2025, the importation of espresso, cocoa, rubber, palm oil, beef, wooden, and soybeans which have contributed to deforestation.

However its utility procedures are nonetheless unclear, significantly on easy methods to certify non-deforestation soy imports, and the European Fee nonetheless has to publish « implementation particulars »: « three months earlier than the regulation is carried out, it’s completely irresponsible », protested Ludovic Michel, vice-president of Snia, throughout a press convention in Paris.

« We face an actual threat of provide chain disruption, with disastrous prices, » he lamented. (September 12, 2024)