IDM ¦ Column
European dairy walks
the talk towards
sustainability goals
The ‘European Green Dairy Deal’ is our EU-wide commitment
to achieve the Green Deal objectives in a completely new
policy framework
44 · January/February 2022 ¦ international-dairy.com
Giuseppe Ambrosi, EDA president
that the national strategic plans, one of the new CAP instruments,
are ‘dairy-operational’. And here, we call upon the 27 EU member
states, which elaborate these plans according to their priorities and
specificities. The role of the European Commission is to make sure
to have a balanced overall picture across Europe and hence a level
playing field for the dairy sector within the EU Single Market.
When starting my EDA presidency mandate, I took stock of our
work on the challenges ahead and the achievements accomplished
so far, and focused on the opportunities arising on the horizon for
the European dairy sector, in times when sustainability is at the
centre of politics and policy-related discussions.
European dairy: where tradition meets
evolution
Since I stepped in my new role, my mission as president of EDA
has been to reinforce the image and reputation of European milk
and dairy, a symbol of Europe’s rich cultural and culinary heritage.
On March 2021 I was elected president of the European
Dairy Association (EDA), a challenging position that I
embraced after 20 years of chairmanship of Assolatte,
the Italian EDA member.
With the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), finally approved
by the end of 2021, my first year of mandate was marked
by the opening of this new chapter for European agriculture. We
have been an active part in the discussions from the very beginning
of the process and ensured, especially also in the last phasis,
the so-called trilogue negotiations between the European institutions,
a good outcome for European dairy.
When these trilogue negotiations were concluded, we celebrated
that the new CAP will deliver a transforming policy tailored
for an evolving world, mobilizing synergies to integrate European
agriculture into the European Green Deal and its goal of
making Europe climate neutral by 2050. Now, it is time to ensure
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