Water Resilience Strategy
The Water Resilience Strategy seeks to improve water management across the EU Member States. It recognises that water-related disasters like floods and droughts, water inequalities, and water stress will only worsen with climate change, and harm Europe’s citizens and businesses.
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Nature Credits Roadmap
The Roadmap sets out the European Commission’s actions related to nature credits until 2027. During two years, the Commission will engage with stakeholders across multiple workstreams to gather evidence on the opportunity and potential design of a nature credits scheme.
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Omnibus on Food and Feed Safety
As part of its simplification agenda and effort to cut administrative burdens on European companies, the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus aims to streamline and harmonise EU rules and procedures across areas including plant protection and biocidal products, feed, official controls, and animal health and welfare.
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Carbon Farming
The Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF) seeks to put in place a common framework for the certification of carbon removals and carbon farming.
Bioeconomy Strategy
The Strategy for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy, also known simply as Bioeconomy Strategy, aims to boost innovation and support the deployment of solutions based on biological resources to create added value.
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Water Framework Directive
Since 2000, the Water Framework Directive is the main European law on water protection. It mandates Member States to put in place River Basin Management Plans, at international level if relevant, to protect and restore water bodies to reach a good status by 2027.
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Waste Framework Directive for Food
The Waste Framework Directive (WFD) aims to protect the environment and human health by reducing waste creation, limiting the negative effects of waste and its management, and using resources more efficiently. These actions are key to moving toward a circular economy. To achieve these objectives, the Directive establishes a legal framework and outlines the rules for waste management across the EU.
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Soil Monitoring Law
Recognising the natural services provided by healthy soils, the European Commission published in 2021 an EU Soil Strategy for 2030, aiming to have all soils across the EU in healthy condition by 2050.
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Organic Regulation
The Organic Regulation sets EU rules for producing and labelling organic food. It restricts external inputs, bans GMOs and mineral nitrogen fertilisers, promotes soil health, and requires organic feed and strict welfare standards for livestock. It also defines the transition to organic farming and criteria for using the EU organic label.
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Vision for Agriculture & Food
The Vision is a strategic document setting the priorities of the European Commission for the agri-food sector until 2040. It is built on the outcomes of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture, a forum launched in January 2024 by the European Commission to create a shared vision for European agriculture.