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Copa-Cogeca supports EU's decision to suspend imports from Brazilian meat plants

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EU farm body Copa-Cogeca is backing up the measure taken by the European Union's authorities to suspend meat imports from 20 Brazilian meat plants.

Posted on Apr 25 ,14:55

Copa-Cogeca supports EU's decision to suspend imports from Brazilian meat plants

Furthermore, the EU farmers' Union also called for results from the European Parliament’s latest mission to Brazil to be urgently examined too.

"We are behind the EU Commission’s proposal to block meat imports coming from 20 Brazilian meat plants as they fail to meet the EU’s high standards. This is not the first time that insufficient controls have been detected there. We cannot afford to undermine the high quality and traceability standards that we have in the EU," said Copa and Cogeca Secretary-General Pekka Pesonen.

Chairman of Copa and Cogeca’s beef working party Jean Pierre Fleury also urged the Commission to assess results from European Parliament’s fact-finding mission to the meat sector in Brazil this April and to take action.

According to Copa and Cogeca, the EU U is already 102% self-sufficient in beef production and that the cumulative impact of trade deals being negotiated with non-EU countries combined with the potential impact of Brexit would cause the market to be oversupplied and beef prices to plummet by 16%, putting at risk growth and jobs in rural areas .

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