New EU emission rules a headache for European poultry farmers

Producers of eggs as well as other poultry farmers in a number of European countries are warning that new EU rules on industrial and livestock rearing emissions are threatening their businesses. “Lowering the thresholds means that the rules are going to apply to numerous small egg producers. This directive therefore seriously undermines the French model of family livestock holdings that has hardly any equivalent in the EU let alone elsewhere in the world,” says chairman Yves-Marie Beaudet