Agriculture lawmakers in the European Parliament are united in their outrage toward a recent proposal by the EU executive, in which farming emissions are counted as those from industry.
“We were almost entirely unanimous here,” were the surprising words uttered by Green MEP Benoît Biteau in this week’s joint meeting of the environment (ENVI) and agriculture (AGRI) committees, the latter of which is well known for its internal clashes.
“What we observed was that the Commission’s proposal was not at all admissible,” the Green said. “For once, the Commission succeeded in something: they got us all to rally behind the rejection of a text that they have put forward to us,” he continued.
The matter that so united the views of the agri-MEPs is the current proposal to amend the directive on industrial emissions (IED), which was presented last April. (...)
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