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Copa-Cogeca: Promoting and developping the european model of Agriculture Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 1 I what are COPA-COGECA ? II reality of the EU agri trade !!! III FTAs developments IV
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I – what are COPA-COGECA ? II – reality of the EU agri trade !!! III – FTA’s developments IV – main concerns
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I – What are Copa-Cogeca?
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What are Copa-cogeca?
Copa – Professional Farmers 60 farmers uinions together from 27 MS Cogeca – European Agri Cooperatives 35 national platform from 22 MS
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What are Copa and Cogeca ?
- Representing the interest of 13 million
farmers and their families;
- Develop teh activities of more than 40 000
agri cooperatives ;
- explore common views with other EU
economical sector or Non EU Farmers
- rganisations
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II – Reality of the EU agri-trade
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Trade and agriculture
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EU exports mainly high quality products to developed countries
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* Milk, wine and olive oil are more and more dependant to export; * export refunds are not used as a tools for export (less than 200 millions euros in 2011); * the growing food demand is in developing countries (issue about production cost);
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Foo dsecurity in danger ?
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- Net importers of :
- bovine carcass (in average 300 00 T);
- cheapmeat (20% of the Consumption);
- Corn (de 7 to 9 M. de tonnes);
- vegetable proteins: 32 Mio. tonnes in eq. soycake (70%
- f the EU needs)
- fruits and vegetables: 10 toà 13 millions de T.
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L’UE cultivate 35 millions ha outside UE to feed 500 millions of consumers
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10 20 30 40 50 1999/2000 2007/2008
Arable land exported
10 20 30 40 50 1999/2000 2007/2008
Arable land imported Wheat Corn Coarse Grains Rice Soya Palm Other Oilseeds Sugar crops Coffee, Cocoa, Tea Fruits Vegetables Others
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Agriculture
- III. FTAs development
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Mercosur
- the most conflicting due to a direct confrontation on raw
production (animal feed and beefmeat);
- Mercosur is already the first provider on beefmeat and third
place forpoultry meat;
- base on the Mercosur demand on 2006: cost for EU farming
by 16 billions euros;
- major concerns on production standard for animal health,
tracability
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Canada
- more flexible appraoch and mainly agro-food sector
- EU get a slight posititiv balance (.5 billion euros);
- high canadian expectation on beef and pork sector;
- not ambitious to open their market on dairy products;
- reluctant to recognize GI’s.
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US
- US is our 2nd clients with a balance psoition (.3 billions
euros);
- We export mainly FV, Wine and dairy products,
- US expectation beef/pork and poultry meat;
- core issues will be SPS/animal welfare
- reluctant to recognize GI’s.
- timing : if a succes conclud in 2015
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Main concerns
- Prefer option: WTO agreement;
- FTAs with developed countries is strategic if we want the enforcement of
TRIPS ;
- SPS and extension to animal welfare concern is becoming the key issue;
- what about environmental standards ?
- labelling of origin and traceability system for processed products ?
- organic production and mutual recognition;
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Main concerns
- Impact on EU farming may be devastating if imports are focus on quality
products
- EU farmers will face a contraction of public support (-15%). Return from
the market need to be improved !!!
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