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Last January the Official Journal of the European Union published la European Parliament resolution of 14 June 2023 on ensuring food security and long-term resilience of the EU agriculture.
As part of this Resolution, the European Parliament calls on the Commission to to set out a long-term vision for achieving strategic autonomy in fertilisers in order to incentivise the industry to reorient to more sustainable production methods; stresses that farming practices and alternative sources of nutrients can improve nutrient cycles and reduce dependence on chemical fertilisers, thereby reducing dependence on fertiliser imports; stresses in this context the need to further support research and innovation at EU level; emphasises that to ensure food production in the long term, resources that are readily available and produced within the EU, such as organic fertilisers, should be utilised and developed to the fullest.
Calls on the Commission to raise the limits for the use of nitrogen fertilisers derived from animal manure, e.g. RENURE (REcovered Nitrogen from manURE), digestate from bio-waste and any other effective and verified source; calls on the Commission, in the meantime, to allow a temporary derogation in order to bring down the cost of fertilisers, while seeking the introduction of long-term framework provisions to promote a circular economy on farms and reduce dependence on third country resources; points out that these longer-term measures should include the drawing up of farm intervention strategies, including factors relating to nutrient management plans, soil recovery, precision farming, organic farming and the use of leguminous crops in crop rotation schemes, and be accompanied by sufficient and fair transition periods.
23 January 2024/ OJEU/ European Union.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/l
