The project aims to implement an individual traceability system in the Brazilian beef and leather chain to comply with EU regulations and ensure deforestation-free trade flows. By closing the current traceability gap, it aims to facilitate marketing to major foreign markets, as well as to promote more sustainable and responsible practices in domestic agri-food production.
Considering that new international regulations to prohibit the import of products associated with deforestation are already being discussed and approved by relevant importing markets, Brazil will need, in a short space of time, to promote improvements and modernisations of existing systems and implement new instruments capable of attesting to the socio-environmental traceability of its livestock.
Individual animal identification has emerged as a key requirement for compliance with the European Union's EU Deforestation Free Regulation (EUDR), which will come into force in 2025, and must be implemented as a matter of urgency in Brazil as a way of anticipating what appears to be a global trend in the export of deforestation-free meat and hides. However, there is no system in place capable of complying promptly with this new regulation.
The proposed action aims to test and establish a model of individual animal traceability that can be implemented quickly, efficiently and, above all, without burdening the farmer. With feasibility proven by the project partner in the EU, the model should be disseminated among the main links in the meat and leather production chain, with the objective of increasing the number of Brazilian MSMEs that comply with national legislation and EU market requirements.
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The final beneficiaries of this project are the meat processing plants, their direct and indirect suppliers and the tanneries.
The slaughterhouses that are signatories to the TAC and are significant in terms of slaughter volume will be the beneficiaries of this project, benefiting from the traceability of the entire chain of products to be offered.
However, the link considered to be the main beneficiary is the calf rearing farms as well as the breeding farms.
In a nutshell:
| Region/Cities of implementation | Duration | Total budget | N° of beneficiary SMEs |
Amazonas, Brazil | 24 months (from April 2023 to April 2025) | €405,809.62 | 150 producers (80,000 animals), 20 MPMEs |
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