Question 33871 — agri-food

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Ms. Bénédicte Taurine draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the end of the exemption provided for in 2020 by European regulations which grants non-approved slaughter establishments (EANA) the ability to cut and transform the products resulting from these slaughters. The European Commission is considering the removal of this exemption, which has been renewed from year to year since 2006. That year, the European hygiene package (giving the guidelines for health standards) has established in writing the right for non-approved slaughter establishments to cut and process their products resulting from slaughter. The hygiene standards to be respected in non-approved establishments are the same as for approved slaughterhouses. The EANAs only market animals produced on the farm for direct sale within a radius of 80 kilometers and therefore do not have no access to the European market. Furthermore, poultry and lagomorphs supply local markets and grocery stores which therefore contribute to local development. This planned elimination goes against the sustainability and development of short-circuit local markets, which are increasingly popular with consumers and recommended for environmental protection. These breedings, slaughters and Farm cutting also responds to the growing demand for better traceability from consumers. The State encouraged producers to make EANAs and today we would eliminate these establishments which make it possible to respond to the priorities of relocalization of food production, “eating better” and support for local sectors. It should be noted that no health problems of any kind were noted Since. This method allows animals to be spared the stress inherent in transport and to avoid their concentration with animals from other farms, favoring their exposure to transmissible pathologies. It is about maintaining an ancestral production model which is part of France's gastronomic heritage, a way of life and production allowing rurality to persist in its particularities and to persist according to economic models specific to it. She therefore asks him if he plans to ask the European Commission to cancel its proposed revision and renew the exemption made to France, the only one capable of preserving a short sector made up of small producers and encouraging these models which are increasingly popular with consumers.

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