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Around 200 types of project are covered by the Environmental Impact Assessment directive (EIA) – from bridges, ports, motorways and landfill sites to intensive rearing of poultry or pigs.

The new derogation allows farmers to exceed the limit of 170 kg of organic nitrogen per hectare set down in the Nitrates Regulations, up to a maximum of 250 kg per hectare, subject to adherence to stricter rules.

Two years after the publication of the BPEX Roadmap, the reduction in climate change potential (carbon footprint) already achieved is beyond expectation, far exceeding the overall 2020 target.

The official approval of these products obtained from agricultural methanisation will allow the authorisation of their market entry in all the national territory.

The number of farms declined by 12% between 2007 and 2010.

The French Ministers of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, and of Agriculture, Food and Forestry have signed two decrees for strengthening the battle against the contamination by nitrates.

The seventh action programme lists nine priority aims to be achieved by 2020, including protection of the environment and the strengthening of ecological resilience...

Nitrates concentrations are slightly decreasing in both surface and groundwater and sustainable agricultural practices are more widespread.

Wider use of already-existing best practices and technologies could significantly help sector reduce outputs of global warming gases.

For the Court, the designations of vulnerable areas are insufficient in the Adour-Garonne, Rhône-Méditerranée, Rhin-Meuse, and Loire-Bretagne basins.

The carbon footprint per pound of dressed carcass produced has been reduced 35% from 3.8 kg/CO2e to 2.5 kg/CO2e.

The French Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, brought together, early this week, all the parties in the swine industry to develop a plan for the future of the sector.

The goal of the government is to develop in France, in year 2020, 1,000 biogas plants at the farms.