Neil Parish MEP

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Email: neil.parish@europarl.europa.eu

Website: http://www.neilparishmep.org.uk/

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Press

Cu-cumbersome laws on fruit and veg to be scrapped

Posted,30/06/2009 13:00:00

European Commissioner earns her celery

Cu-cumbersome laws on fruit and veg to be scrapped

Posted,30/06/2009 00:00:00

A decades old political hot potato for the European Commission will finally be repeeled tomorrow when the EU lifts its ban on wonky fruit and veg, Neil Parish MEP, Conservative chairman of the European Parliament's agriculture committee, said today.

Agriculture Payments should be equal across EU

Posted,22/06/2009 00:00:00

Conservative MEP and Chairman of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee Neil Parish has called on the EU to radically reform the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) to ensure that payments are the same for land in all EU countries.

Red wine + white wine does not equal rosé

Posted,06/05/2009 15:00:00

Controversial proposals to allow wine that is made up of simply mixing red and white wine to be labelled and sold as rosé have been criticised by Conservative MEP Neil Parish, chairman of the European Parliament's agriculture committee.  

Animal testing laws to be beefed up

Posted,05/05/2009 13:00:00

Conservative MEP drafts proposals to make animal testing obsolete -- The European Parliament has today overwhelmingly backed tougher laws on animal testing that were drafted by Conservative MEP Neil Parish.

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This MEP in the News

Fears over sheep tagging 'folly'

Up to half of England's sheep farmers fear they could be driven out of business by new European rules on the electronic tagging of flocks.

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Low-alcohol bubbly is not wine, court rules

An importer of low-alcohol sparkling drinks was told today that it could not market its products as wine because it had not met European regulations for minimum alcohol content.

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Farmers fight EU plans to tag 30 million sheep

Revolt erupts over proposals ordering electronic identity for every animal

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The Record: Europe

minister was in Strasbourg to give MEPs details of his country's plans for its six-month stint at the helm of the EU.

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EU farm ministers mull farm subsidy reforms

As thousands of farmers protested vehemently outside, European Union agriculture ministers mulled changes Wednesday to the EU's euro53 billion ($67 billion) farm support program.

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