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On July 25, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment that organisms created through many newer genome editing techniques are to be regulated....

On July 1, 2018, Austria took over the rotation Presidency of the Council of the EU. This report provides an overview of the Presidency’s priorities for the next six months.

On July 2, 2018, 4,718 MT of beef was imported into the fresh 2018/19 High Quality Beef (HQB) quota.

Although this European Commission has already done a lot of work on endocrine disruptors, there remain many concerns regarding this issue.

On June 14, 2018, an agreement on the successor to the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) was reached for 2021-2030.

The European Commission published Implementing Regulation 2018/775 setting out Country of Origin Labeling rules for the primary ingredient in prepacked foods.

On June 6, 2018 the EU published permanent Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) for fosetyl-al (the sum of fosetyl, phosphonic acid and their salts, expressed as fosetyl) on tree nuts.

New legislation on trade defense entered into force in the EU on June 8, 2018.

On April 11, 2018, the European Commission published a proposal to amend the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive to answer Member States’ demand for tools to tackle dual quality of foodstuff....

The EU started the post-quota era with an all-time record sugar production of 22.8 million MT for MY 2017/2018, of which 21.1 million MT is for processing into sugar....

On April 12, 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on unfair trading practices in the food supply chain.

The EU28’s grain harvest in MY2018/19 is forecast to be the sixth to surpass 300 MMT in a decade.