The European Commission today adopted rules to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, such as ammonia, nitrogen, and phosphorus, at large poultry and pig farming operations.
The framework adopted today, under the Industrial Emissions and Livestock Directive, aims to create common minimum environmental standards for the EU’s large poultry and pig farming operations.
This regulation sets out how large pig and poultry farms should operate to reduce ammonia, nitrogen and phosphorus emissions, GHGs linked to respiratory diseases, to the degradation of nature, and to water contamination.
The new rules will apply at the level of farm operations between 2030 and 2032, depending on their size, and are also compatible with the Commission’s proposal to simplify rules on industrial emissions.
The revised Industrial Emissions and Livestock Directive covers the EU’s largest pig and poultry farms, representing about 30% of these operations.
For Brussels, the implementation of the directive is essential to help reduce nitrogen pollution in the air, in water, and in soil.
