IFA President Leads Delegation of European Farmers to Meet EU Commission
IFA President Francie Gorman led a delegation from the EU farmer representative body COPA in Brussels this week to a High-Level Dialogue on fertiliser with the Directors General of DG AGRI, DG TAXUD and DG GROW from the EU Commission.
Francie Gorman is an elected vice President of COPA, the European farm body.
“We raised a number of issues including the newly introduced Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) which is being applied to every tonne of fertiliser imported into the EU,” he said.
“This is completely illogical when we see how much the cost of fertiliser is increasing in the EU due to the Middle East crisis,” he said.
“The delegation from COPA communicated to the Commission that farmers cannot carry this extra cost at this time and the immediate introduction of measures to offset this price increase is necessary.”
IFA and COPA have been in dialogue with all levels of the European institutions regarding CBAM and fertiliser prices seeking a solution to the current crisis.
