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Denmark’s two cooperative slaughterhouse companies have agreed to combine their activities in a joint company.

The number of pigs slaughtered in 2014 grew by 0.2% (112,600 heads), reaching 58.7 million animals.

A Commission move to introduce Private Storage Aid for pigmeat in order to ease pressure on  the EU pigmeat market has been voted on by Member States in the [Management] Committee.

The Minister of Agriculture and the pig sector have met to look for solutions before the situation faced by the sector.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) reached a tentative contract last Friday.

European Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, will propose the opening of a measure of private storage for pork products.

With a production of 5.5 million tonnes, corresponding to 25% of the EU total, Germany was in 2013 the main producer of pig meat in the EU, followed by Spain (3.4 mn t or 16%).

The unfulfilment of the payment deadlines is considered a serious offence in the Law on measures for improving the functioning of the food chain, and the fines may reach €100,000.

Export value for both U.S. beef and pork reached new heights in 2014, posting double-digit gains over the previous year’s totals.

The list of Spanish establishments approved to export beef and/or pork products to the United States has been expanded.

The Government approves the rule implementing the Law on measures to improve the functioning of the food chain.

The lower tariff will be applied to the quota Japan plans to set based on the current level of pork imported from the United States.

The European Commission publishes the EU legal textual proposal on regulatory cooperation.

18 million farmers in 28 countries planted  more than 181 million hectares in 2014, up from 175 million in 27 countries in 2013.

Abreu wants Brazilian beef, chicken and pork parts that are certified by Brazil's sanitary regulators sent to China without having to be certified by the Asian country's inspectors.

The decision foresees the implementation in Italy of the new Directive on genetically modified organisms (GMO).