The EU’s agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has backed a review of the bloc’s plan to promote environmentally-friendly food production.

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Speaking in Nürnberg, Germany, Fischer Boel (pictured) said she favoured a “mid-term evaluation” of 2004’s European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming.


“We should keep the plan’s substance. But if there’s clear evidence that we need to change course slightly – why not?”


Fischer Boel highlighted the pressures faced by organic food producers while “prices have gone up and down like a rollercoaster”.


The action plan, which lists 21 actions to promote environmentally-friendly food production, pushes standardisation, labelling rules and government support for the organic sector.

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