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Ref. Ares(2020)3420728 - 30/06/2020
A Farm to Fork Strategy
For a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
Current text:
DEFIS proposed text:
Motivations
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To achieve sustainable food production,
To achieve sustainable food production, farmers,
farmers, fishers and aquaculture producers
fishers and aquaculture producers need to transform
- Link with EU Space Strategy:
need to transform their production
their production methods, making the best use of
encouraging the uptake of space data
methods, making the best use of nature-
nature-based, technological and digital and space-
and services and foster the innovative
based, technological and digital solutions
based solutions to
deliver better environmental
EU space solutions for EU policies.
to
deliver better environmental results,
results, increase climate resilience and
reduce
increase climate resilience and
reduce
input use (e.g. pesticides, fertilisers).
- Follows the European Parliament
input use (e.g. pesticides, fertilisers).
recommendation to maximize the
benefits for society and EU economy
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The Commission will also work with
The Commission will also work with Members
“(…) on the fact that EU space
Members States to foster a more
States to foster a more widespread application of
programmes and their services are
widespread application of balanced, more
balanced, more precise fertilisation and sustainable
key assets in policy areas and
precise fertilisation and sustainable
agricultural practices, including through use of EU
economic sectors such as energy,
agricultural practices, including through
space technologies (Copernicus, Galileo) and the
climate, environment, security and
the measures in the CAP strategic plans.
measures in the CAP strategic plans.
defence, health, agriculture, forestry,
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Moreover, the proposed
revision of the Moreover, the proposed
revision of the Union’s fisheries, transport, tourism, the
Union’s fisheries control system1 will
fisheries control system2 will contribute to the fight digital market and mobile
contribute to the fight against fraud against fraud through an enhanced traceability communications, regional policy and
through an enhanced traceability system. system, thanks also to the unique features of the EU local planning(…)”
The mandatory use of digitalised catch space technologies (Copernicus, Galileo). The
certificate will strengthen the system to mandatory use of digitalised catch certificate will - Leading by example through
prevent illegal fish products from entering strengthen the system to prevent illegal fish
1 COM/2018/368 final
2 COM/2018/368 final
the EU market.
products from entering the EU market.
innovative solutions that ultimately
lead to promote EU technological
sovereignty and EU innovation
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The Commission will work with Member The Commission will work with Member States,
States, Europol
and other relevant bodies Europol
and other relevant bodies to exploit - Foster digitalization/innovation
to exploit comprehensive EU data on comprehensive EU data on traceability and alerts in leading to more efficient/sustainable
traceability and alerts in order to enhance order to enhance coordination on food fraud, commercial operations
coordination
on
food
fraud.
The leveraging at full extent the capabilities EU space
Commission will also propose to reinforce technologies
(Copernicus,
Galileo).
The
dissuasive measures, to better control Commission will also propose to reinforce
imports and to strengthen investigative dissuasive measures, to better control imports and to
capacities of the European Anti-Fraud strengthen investigative capacities of the European
Office (OLAF) on food fraud, including in Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on food fraud, including
intra-EU cross border matters.
in intra-EU cross border matters.
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The R&I actions will advance
knowledge, The R&I actions will advance
knowledge, build
build capacities and develop innovative capacities and develop innovative solutions -
solutions - including nature-based, social, including nature-based, social, digital and artificial
digital and artificial intelligence solutions - intelligence solutions - to increase sustainability of
to increase sustainability of food systems. food systems. The Commission will expand analysis
The Commission will expand analysis of of Copernicus satellite imagery and Galileo
satellite imagery by artificial intelligence positioning by artificial intelligence to allow for
to allow for more precise planning of more precise planning of farming operations and
farming operations and monitoring of the monitoring of the condition of farmland in aspects
condition of farmland in aspects relevant to relevant to the environment and climate. The
the environment and climate.
Commission shall also support the generation and re-
use of digital on-farm solutions for a more sustainable
agriculture based on space data and other public and
private datasets. Targeted, localized, agro-ecology
measures based on machine learning applied to image
recognition, on the re-use of various public sector data
and user-generated data will be implemented. In this
respect, systems such as the Farm Sustainability Tool
proposed in the CAP legislation have the potential to be
scaled up to support the digital implementation of
innovative climate and environment-friendly (measures
(e.g. result-based local schemes).