Data on Female Beef Imports from Brazil
Dear Taxation and Customs Union,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
-- 2024 Data on female beef Imports from Brazil before the recent suspension for the presence of hormone oestradiol 17β;
-- 2024/early 2025 Data on male beef imports from Brazil;
-- information on whether the imports have resumed and the suspension has been lifted;
-- names of the main importers/exporters of such products;
-- information on the company/companies whose beef was contaminated with the hormone oestradiol 17β;
-- 2024 import data on other type of beef byproducts.
Yours faithfully,
Gabriele Di Donfrancesco
Via Savoia, 13
Dear Taxation and Customs Union,
the corrected address is Via Savoia 13, Rome, Italy
Yours faithfully,
Gabriele Di Donfrancesco
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 13/03/2025 and registered on 13/03/2025 under the case number
2025/1473.
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Yours faithfully,
TAXUD Access to Documents Team
Dear Mr Di Donfrancesco,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2025/1473.
Kind regards,
European Commission
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
Unit G-4: Official Controls
Dear Peter Bokor, DG SANTE,
I thank you for your kind and detailed answer and I hereby clarify a few points of my initial request, as suggested.
For the other types of beef byproducts imported from Brazil, I meant the following categories: - 1 Bones and horn-cores; 2 Fats of bovine animals; 3 Tanned or crust hides and skins. Thus, I kindly request, if available to your unit, any aggregated or disaggregated European import data from Brazil for these categories of byproducts.
I also take this opportunity to ask you to clarify a point in your answer on the lack of certification on the sex of the animal:
- are there then any European controls in place to ascertain that no female beef meat has been effectively imported?
- is it possible to review the documentation through which the Brazilian competent authorities "have indicated to DG SANTE that, since 23 January 2025, no meat from female animals has been exported to the EU"?
Yours faithfully,
Gabriele Di Donfrancesco
Dear Mr Di Donfrancesco,
We are writing to you concerning your access to documents request EASE
2025/1473. Following our clarification request of 3 April 2025, we
consulted the AsktheEU website and we noticed that you replied to our
request. Unfortunately, it seems that your email was not duly delivered
as we could not find any trace in our inboxes.
May we kindly ask you to send us a copy of your email directly to
[1][email address]? This will allow us to duly
register your reply and proceed in sending you the information requested
as soon as possible.
We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause you, but we thank you
very much in advance for your understanding.
With kind regards,
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Dear Mr Di Donfrancesco,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2025/1473.
Kind regards,
European Commission
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
Unit G-4: Official Controls