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In this page, you can access a range of links to the latest public consultations launched by the EU Commission. These consultations provide individuals with the opportunity to share their opinions and feedback on various EU policies and initiatives. The EU Commission encourages visitors to provide their input, as it is valued and taken into consideration as the EU develops and implements policies.

 Rice quotas, certificate templates and quota quantity for cheese exports – changes to rules

This initiative aims to modify the rules on the management of some rice tariff quotas that are over demanded.

It will also introduce some technical adjustments to:

• the templates of certificates for inward monitoring arrangements
• the quantities of a cheese export quota opened by the USA.

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 Common agricultural policy – geo-tagged photos (simplified rules)

This initiative, which aims to simplify the rules for geo-tagged photos, is part of the Commission’s simplification package to alleviate the administrative burden for farmers.

More specifically, it grants Member States greater flexibility in the inclusion of geo-tagged photos in the Area Monitoring System (the system that tracks and assesses agricultural activities) during the programming period of their CAP (common agricultural policy) strategic plans.

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 Organic products – lList of recognised control authorities and control bodies for the imports of organic products compliant with EU rule

The EU imports organic products certified by control authorities and control bodies whose standards have been recognised as equivalent to rules of the repealed EU legislation on organics.

This recognition is set to expire by 31/12/2024. This amendment sets the list of control authorities and control bodies recognised to certify operators and groups of operators in non-EUthird countries, compliant with the new EU legislative framework on organics currently in force, for the purpose of importing of organic products into the EU.

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 Wine-making practices in the EU: updated rules – transposition into EU law of international recommendations

Update of rules on oenological practices - transposition into EU law of international recommendations (OIV)

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 High-risk organic and in-conversion products – import checks and sampling (amendment)

This initiative aims to:

- delete the requirement of identity and physical checks and sampling for 100% of the consignments of high-risk organic and in-conversion products imported into the EU
- introduce flexibility over the share of consignments of high-risk products subject to physical checks and sampling.

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 Emissions trading system (ETS) – permanent emissions storage through carbon capture and utilisation

The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) Directive has been revised with the EU target set out in the European Climate Law. The target is to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.

This initiative, based on the revised ETS Directive, will set the conditions under which these GHG emissions can be considered as permanently chemically bound in a product so that they do not enter the atmosphere under normal use and under any normal end-of-life activity.

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 Agricultural products – adapting rules on import licenses and tariff quotas to allow the use of electronic documents

This proposal replaces the current templates for import and export licences with a data model that will allow the digitisation of all customs procedures related to checks on documents that accompany agricultural products.

Similarly, it replaces the current templates for documents issued by non-EU countries with a single, uniform data model that will allow electronic versions of these documents to be exchanged between the EU and these countries.

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 Agricultural products – adapting rules on import licences and tariff quotas to allow the use of electronic documents

This proposal reflects the development of the ELAN system for non-customs formalities and the use of the data models for AGRIM and AGREX licences (for agricultural imports and exports).

It also adapts the templates for documents produced by non-EU importers.

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 List of high-risk organic and in-conversion products originating from third countries and their control rate

This act concerns products from non-EU countries certified as organic that are considered to be high-risk due to their involvement in major, critical or repetitive cases of non-compliance that affect their integrity or their production.

It lists these high-risk products (organic and in-conversion) and provides details on their country of origin and the necessary amount of identity checks, physical checks and sampling percentages for consignments.

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