Summary Description
- Establishes a tax on animal source product and a fund to compensate farmers, low-income communities, as well as climate mitigation and adaptation measures.
- TopicThe topic of the legislation or policy covered by the text
- Alternative ProteinsTaxation
- SpeciesThe animal, or type of food production, covered by the text
- JurisdictionCountry or geographical area where the text applies
- The Netherlands
- Sub-jurisdictionCountry or state where the text applies
- N/A
- Type of ActWhether the act is a law, regulation, or policy, or another type of text
- Legislative Proposal
- StatusIndicates whether the act is in force or not
- Proposal by civil society
- Legal ValueWhether the text is binding or not
- N/A
- Date enactedDate the text was adopted
- N/A
- Date updatedDate when the entry was last updated by the CALF team
- June, 2023
- Official citation
- True Animal Portein price Coalition (TAPP), "EU Policy Proposals," https://www.tappcoalition.eu/policy-proposals (last visited October 3 2021)
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Strengths
- Revenues generated by the tax will go towards a 'Fair Food Price Fund' which will compensate farmers for implementing additional measures to protect the climate and improve animal welfare as well as to compensate low income communities. The Fund will further fund the decrease of tax on sales plant-based foods. In addition, part of the "Fair Food Tax' revenues can be used for funding the UN Green Climate Fund for mitigation and adaptation.
- Weaknesses
- The efficiency of such a tax mechanism is limited by the absence of an EU tax policy that would harmonize such mechanism in the EU as opposed to only one country.