How does EUDR impact the competitiveness of EU livestock production?

How do the requirements of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) impact the competitiveness of the EU livestock sector ? The EUDR includes a range of soy products in its scope of relevant products, which are globally traded and widely used in animal feed production across the world. The inclusion of soy has indirect consequences for the competitiveness of EU livestock production, as compliance costs for soy meeting the EUDR requirements will have to be absorbed by the livestock value chain. These are costs that third countries exporting animal products to the EU do not have to make. In relation to livestock, the EUDR also includes cattle and cattle meat products, which has implications for how EU cattle farmers and the placers on the EU market of cattle meat products need to organize themselves. And while farmers and industry are preparing for meeting EUDR requirements, the key question is also how national competent authorities will go about enforcement.

Programme

📅 9 JULY | 🕑 10:00–11:30 | 📍 Strasbourg, European Parliament, Room WEISS S3.5

I. Welcome Remarks (10 minutes)

• MEP Maria Grapini, MEP Alexander Bernhuber, MEP Benoit Cassart
  • Co-Chairs of the Sustainable Livestock Intergroup
• MEP Asger Christensen

II. European Commission Intervention (10 minutes)

• Luis Planas Herrera, Member of Cabinet to Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall – invited

III. Policy Interventions (30 minutes) 

• Giorgio Della Bonna, Vice-President of COCERAL
  • The complexity of soy supply chains
• Representative of the Irish presidency to the EU – invited
  • Irish EU Council Presidency
• Daniel Coulonval, President Fédération Wallonne de l’Agriculture
  • Selling cattle meat products on the EU market

IV. Exchange of Views with MEPs (25 minutes)

V. Closing remarks (5 minutes) 

• MEP Benoit Cassart
  • Co-chair of the Sustainable Livestock Intergroup