Loading ...Handouts? I see a lot of that going on around me. Grants all over the place. Who is Bernie? I just looked up the story. It doesn’t sound so bad. Maybe evolving towards organic? Maybe no more herbicides an pesticides too? If anything the food will cost more? The fertilizer producers can still sell their stuff to other countries.
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The Commission presented its proposal in March 2016 as part of the EU’s circular economy action plan. One of its main objectives is to encourage large scale fertilizer production from domestic organic or secondary raw materials in line with the circular economy model, by transforming waste into nutrients for crops.
The regulation still has to be signed and published in the Official Journal of the EU. It will enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication. It will start applying three years from its entry into force.
These new rules will ensure that only fertilisers that meet high quality and safety EU-wide requirements and standards can be sold freely across the EU. The contaminants in EU phosphate fertilizing products, such as cadmium, can potentially pose a risk to human, animal or plant health, to safety or to the environment and for this reason, the content of such contaminants was limited according to the new rules.
The new rules will boost the production and use of phosphate fertilizers with low cadmium content and of organic fertilisers and will provide a greater choice to farmers oriented towards a more environment-friendly agriculture.