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The European Parliament and the Council have reached a provisional agreement on updated rules on the labelling of organic pet food, which will align them with the rules on the labelling of organic food for human consumption. For pet food to carry the EU organic logo, 95 % of all its agricultural ingredients will have to be organic. The update was necessary as the current regulation on organic labelling allows feed to be labelled as organic only if all the agricultural ingredients come from organic ...

In 2014, the Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on medicated feed with the aim to update and harmonise rules that dated from 1990 and were laid out in a directive. Patchy national implementation was causing difficulties for producers, animal holders and the single market. Due to the strong correlation between the proposal on medicated feed and the draft regulation on veterinary medicinal products, legislative work on both acts was being coordinated to assure consistency between their ...