Press releases - Fertilizers Europe

06 February 2024

Press Release: EU 2040 climate target – Make or break for a competitive and low-carbon fertilizer industry in Europe

10 December 2023

Press Release: LAT Nitrogen CEO Leo Alders elected President of Fertilizers Europe

14 November 2023

Press Release: Towards sustainable food systems with low-carbon EU-made fertilisers

05 July 2023

Press Release: The European Commission’s proposal on Soil Monitoring and Resilience offers an opportunity to re-design EU agri-food systems by focusing on optimized use of nutrients and balanced fertilization

Fertilizers Europe, representing the European fertilizer industry, welcomes the European Commission’s ambition to boost soil management across the EU territory. Today’s Soil Monitoring and Resilience proposal demonstrates a positive step towards promoting sustainable soil and nutrient management at farm level, ensuring soil fertility, and ultimately ensuring EU food security.

31 March 2023

Renewable Energy Directive is a missed opportunity to fully untap the potential for clean European fertilizer and ammonia

24 March 2023

Fertilizers Europe calls on co-legislators to secure clean ammonia production in Europe

16 March 2023

Net Zero Industry Act falls short of stimulating investments in clean fertilizer production in Europe

07 March 2023

Fertilizers Europe announces new Director General

16 February 2023

Press release: EU Fertilizer industry welcomes Parliament’s call for a long-term strategy to boost Europe’s strategic autonomy on fertilizers

03 February 2023

Director General of Fertilizers Europe Jacob Hansen to step down

01 February 2023

Energy-Intensive Industries Joint Statement on the Green Deal Industrial Plan

21 December 2022

Council’s decision to suspend urea and ammonia tariffs at odds with Europe’ s push for strategic autonomy

19 December 2022

ETS/CBAM adoption – without an export solution the EU is voluntarily withdrawing European industry from the export markets

15 December 2022

Fertilizers Europe statement ahead of final ETS/CBAM trilogue negotiations

29 November 2022

Agri-Food Chain Coalition (AFCC) Statement

09 November 2022

Communication on fertilisers: EU industry welcomes short-term measures but calls for more comprehensive long-term strategy

06 October 2022

Press Release: The EU Fertilizer Strategy: a tool to secure EU industry’s green potential and ensure long-term food security in Europe

15 September 2022

ReFertilize EU: Fertilizer industry cautiously welcomes the EU Commission’s efforts to mitigate high energy costs. Further steps needed to restart fertilizer production in Europe.

26 August 2022

Europe’s fertilizer industry victim of EU’s energy chaos.

02 August 2022

Fertilizers Europe statement on critical fertilizer prices and gas costs

20 July 2022

Fertilizer industry needs prioritised access to gas supply as sector is key to Europe’s food security

29 June 2022

Council position Fitfor55: important improvements needed in trilogue negotiations

22 June 2022

Industry supports CBAM. Parliament position not good enough

10 June 2022

Press Release: The European Council’s conclusions fail to understand the crucial role of mineral fertilizers in ensuring food security

24 March 2022

Fertilizers Europe suspends the membership of Eurochem Group

23 March 2022

Sustaining strong domestic fertilizer industry key to well-functioning Europe’s food systems

08 March 2022

Fertilizers Europe statement on the war in Ukraine

23 February 2022

PRESS RELEASE: A combination of low-carbon technologies key to advance decarbonisation of the ammonia production in Europe by 2030, DECHEMA study shows

21 January 2022

Farm to Fork strategy risks undermining Europe’s food security while driving food prices up if not balanced with science-based solutions, Wageningen University and Research study concludes

22 December 2021

Press Release: Industrial energy consumers urge EU leaders to swiftly act against unbearably high energy prices

02 December 2021

Press Release: Addressing energy crisis is key to normalise EU fertilizer market

20 October 2021

Joint Statement on the European Parliament plenary vote on the Farm to Fork Strategy

20 October 2021

Energy intensive industries urge swift action to tackle unprecedented energy crisis

13 October 2021

Commission energy toolbox does not solve the immediate crisis

12 October 2021

Farm to Fork– It is time to listen to what the data says

04 October 2021

Fertilizers Europe statement on exceptionally high energy costs resulting in capacity curtailment

07 September 2021

Fertilizers Europe statement on UAN fertilizer market

14 July 2021

Fit for 55: Recognizing economic reality key to successful industry transformation towards climate neutrality

06 May 2021

Press Release: Fertilizers Europe acknowledges Commission’s efforts aimed at strengthening EU’s ability to tackle distortive subsidies

11 March 2021

Press Release: Parliament’s vote on carbon border adjustment mechanism reiterates the need for carbon leakage protection adequate to EU’s climate ambitions

01 March 2021

Press Release: Fertilizers Europe comments on the EC communication on the labelling of EU fertilising products

17 December 2020

Press release: European Commission investigation confirms continuation of anti dumping measures on AN from Russia

07 December 2020

Towards circular fertilizer solutions and a more sustainable farming sector – new EU consortium just launched

FERTICYCLE PRESS RELEASE Together with partners from the European fertilizer industry, University of Copenhagen and a range of leading European universities, the FertiCycle consortium will develop...

28 October 2020

PRESS RELEASE – Fertilizers Europe welcomes the Commission report on distortions in the Russian economy

22 September 2020

Revised EU ETS State Aid Guidelines to distort internal market and disincentivize investment

05 August 2020

Fertilizers Europe statement – Explosion in Beirut

31 July 2020

Fertilizers Europe statement on the WTO Panel’s report regarding EU dumping methodologies, anti-dumping duties on Russian imports

08 July 2020

EU hydrogen strategy: European fertilizer producers to play important part in growing hydrogen economy

20 May 2020

Fertilizers Europe accepts the challenge to reduce nutrient losses for resilient food system

Brussels, 20 May 2020: The European fertilizer sector is committed to work hand-in-hand with farmers to maintain a productive agriculture while accepting the need for an environmentally-friendly food...

02 April 2020

Ensuring employees’ health and safety vital for European fertilizer producers to continue operating and helping EU farmers ensure longer-term food security

Brussels, 2 April 2020: European fertilizer producers are committed to maintain operations in these challenging times to ensure timely delivery of quality nutrients to EU farmers, thus helping safegua...

13 December 2019

Fertilizer industry is ready to step up to the ambitions set in the Green Deal to move towards more sustainable agricultural production and low-carbon economy

26 November 2019

European industries unite to call for an ambitious EU industrial strategy

European Union, 26 November 2019 – Industry4Europe, a coalition of 149 sector Associations representing the diversity of the EU’s industrial base, today published its new Joint Paper ‘A long-ter...

11 October 2019

EU UAN industry welcomes Commission’s definitive anti-dumping regulation on imports from Russia, Trinidad & Tobago and the United States of America

16 September 2019

Joint statement for an ambitious Horizon Europe Progamme

05 July 2019

Fertilizers Europe statement on REACH compliance

03 July 2019

Fertilizers Europe comments on EU Fertilizing Products Regulation

17 April 2019

EU UAN Complainant. Industry welcomes commission’s provisional anti-dumping regulation on imports from Russia, Trinidad & Tobago and the United States of America

27 March 2019

Fertilizers Europe Statement on the New Fertilizer Regulation

03 March 2019

A new joint call to all Heads of State and Government by the Industry4Europe coalition

20 February 2019

New Leadership for the European Agri-Food Chain Coalition

Brussels, 20 February 2019: The Agri-Food Chain Coalition (AFCC) appointed Jacob Hansen, Director General of Fertilizers Europe as its new Chair. Jacob is picking up the chairmanship from European Cro...

28 November 2018