Markets & Trade
The feed industry helps to enhance the competitiveness of EU livestock production by safeguarding conditions of free access to raw materials on EU and global markets. FEFAC supports the proper functioning of the Single Market in order to maintain the level playing field for compound feed and premix manufacturers.
Biosecurity
Minimising the risk of incidental dissemination of pathogens is everybody’s business: farmers, agro-supply industry, grain collectors and farm visitors (advisors, service providers, etc)....
EU Vulnerability for Access to Essential Nutritional Feed Additives
The EU dependency on third countries for the supply of EU demand in feed proteins, and in particular reliance on imports of soybean meal, was reported among the top priority issues to be tackled in...
Common Agricultural Policy
2022 marked the 60th anniversary of the EU’s common agricultural policy. At sixty, the EU’s CAP supports an open market for Europe’s agri-food products, providing high-quality and affordable...
EU Protein Plan
EU protein self-sufficiency has been a long-standing issue on the EU agenda for several decades. Recently political focus on EU dependency on imported proteins has sharpened in the context of the...
Food Security & Contingency planning
The resilience of the EU’s food system has been challenged during the COVID-19 crisis pandemic 2020–21 & Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Although The Eu Agri-food chain has proven to be...
Renewable Energy
The EU energy policy promotes renewable energy sources for the European Union seeking to decrease dependency on third countries and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. FEFAC believes that biofuels...
Biotechnology (New Genomic Techniques & Genetically modified organisms)
Over the last 40 years, modern biotechnology has invented or conceived several new tools and techniques implemented to facilitate the breeding of new and improved crop varieties. Compared to...