EU say no to Polish request for cage ban delay
The ban is due to come into force on January 1 2012 but the Poles recently submitted a formal submission asking for it to be delayed for five years until January 2017. They argued that imposing the ban in 2012 would lead to a shortage of eggs in the EU and result in lower standard and lower welfare eggs being imported from outside the union.
Poland’s request was discussed at a meeting of the EU’s Agriculture Council on February 22 and was rejected.
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