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Despite ongoing avian influenza outbreaks and increasing competition from imports, strong internal EU demand will drive chicken meat production in 2024.

On January 26, 2024, the European Commission approved two genetically engineered crops (1 maize and 1 rapeseed) for food and animal feed. The two authorizations were published in the European Union’s Official Journal on January 30, 2024, and they remain valid for 10 years.

EU organic sales decreased slightly in 2022, but rebounded in 2023 due to recovering economic conditions.

This report provides an overview of EU food and feed legislation currently in force. All sections of the report were updated but special attention should be given to EU's new novel food rules...

With some Member States starting to publish provisional harvest estimates for 2015, the total MY2015/16 EU-28 grain crop is revised up to 306.8 MMT, 2.2 MMT above previous expectations.

This report provides EU-28 production, supply, and demand forecasts for fresh apples, fresh pears, and table grapes.

This report provides EU-28 production, supply, and demand forecasts for major EU oilseeds, protein meals and related products.

Deliveries of milk in the European Union are expected to increase by 1.1 percent in 2015 and continue to grow into 2016.

A European Union (EU) directive that allows EU Member States (MS) to ban the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) plants in their respective territories for non-scientific reasons was adopted...

This year’s production of ware potatoes is expected to be 5 percent lower than the five-year average and down by 15 percent compared to last year, due mainly to lower yields.

The EU sugar production for food for MY 2015/16 is forecast at 16.1 million MT, down from 16.750 million MT in MY 2014/15.

The EU-28 broiler sector is expected to grow in 2015 and 2016, benefiting from slowly increasing demand, since it has been less affected than other meats by the economic downturn in Europe.