Fertilizers Europe

Fertilizers Europe welcomes the Commissions efforts to review environmental legislation with the aim of addressing administrative hurdles while upholding environmental goals and we invite the European Commission to take the attached feedback into consideration.

The main EU initiatives followed are generally related to trade or regulatory issues. Within trade our main concerns are free trade agreements and other trade concessions having an impact on the fertilizer market.
Another important aspect are policies related to climate and energy. Gas is also very important since a well-functioning gas market is critical to our industry. All these issues have important trade and food security implications.
Regulatory affairs involve energy and climate change issues. For the fertilizer industry which is a heavily exposed sector on the EU's carbon leakage list, the EU's ETS system and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism are key policy areas.
The use of our product is regulated by Agricultural and Environmental policies such as CAP, agri-environmental schemes, nitrate directive, clean air legislation, water and it has links to the circular economy. The Farm to Fork and EU Biodiversity strategies as well as the Soil Health Law are also likely to impact fertilizer sector.
Standards relating to our products regulated by the fertilizing product regulation is another key area.
Best production practices described in the so called BREF must also be followed and acted upon.
Fertilizer security and chemical safety throughout the production chain also falls within the remit of the association.