The meat industry withdraws from the Community Initiative Single Market for Green Products. The European Commission’s project to set up the Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules ended (i.e., the methods for calculating the environmental footprint of products in the industrial chains, and aligning the ever-changing scenarios of the methods applied in the different Member States). Started in 2013 it is scheduled to end next fall. The meat industry, engaged in the tanning industry in the process of defining the allocation of environmental impacts among the various actors in the zootechnical chain, leaves the project because it now considers its positions unconstitutional with those established by the European Commission. The Commission maintained that it would endeavour to study an allocation method that will convince the meat industry to come back into the project. The tannery, which reuses and gives new life to a by-product of the chain, takes part in the community initiative by asking for an allocation of zero.
Brussels, meat industry abandons the Meat Pilot of the Single Market for Green Products project
