Fruit and Vegetable CMO

Historical of the CMO Reform, the AREFLH’s role

Annual convention of the producers' organizations

On November 15th and 16th, 2011 in Brussels


More than 150 representatives of 14 countries met to discuss the future of the fruit and vegetables OCM, its strong points and the  improvements to be brought.


The AREFLH and the COGECA were partners of this event.


Download the presentations of the speakers:

First day :

Luciano Trentini ICOP 2011

Eduardo Baamonde Noche ICOP 2011

Guy Callebaut ICOP 2011

Markus Nöthen ICOP 2011

Wolfgang Braunstein ICOP 2011

 

Second day :

Raquel Herce ICOP 2011

Thomas Martin ICOP 2011

Mario Tamanti ICOP 2011

Gaston Opdekamp ICOP 2011

Yvon Auffret ICOP 2011

Rudy van der Stappen ICOP 2011

Luc Balemans_ICOP 2011

 

June 2011 : The White Book

The representatives of the regions producing fruit and vegetables present at Almeria Forum on 6th April 2011, unanimously declared themselves in favour of strong and voluntarist European policy. This policy has to allow the fruit and vegetables productions to carry on their effort to organize, to adapt to the markets through quality and services, and to meet the expectations of the society as far as food safety, health and environment are concerned.

The current Common Market Organization must be improved and strengthened. It is based on the organization of the producers which allows, by means of a marketing concentration, to obtain greater added value. It should favour the development of an organized production in Europe.

Read the White Book in English , in Spanish , in Italian, in French

The AREFLH's role in the Fruit and Vegetables CMO

The European production of fruits and vegetables benefits from a particular Common Market Organization.
Based on Producers' Organizations, it facilitates strategies of organization, intensification of the power of negotiation with the approval and the adaptation on the request of the markets.
The AREFLH invests a lot on the occasion of the 2007 and 2010 reforms. It allowed, in particular, the creation of a device of crisis management.

 

The Fruit and Vegetable CMO Reform

The Common Markets Organization (CMO), in the fruits and vegetables sector, was reformed and its modalities of application are effective since January 1st, 2008.

The CMO aims to improving the competitiveness of the productive sector, to taking better into account the markets requirements, to reducing the fluctuations in incomes related to the crises, to increasing the consumption and to strengthening the environmental protection.

If the Fruits and Vegetables CMO is an essential tool to the adaptation and to the organization of the production, if it allowed important progress in environmental protection, it does not give the answers adapted to the crisis prevention and management and to the improvement of the competitiveness.

In a context globally unfavourable to the producers investment, very affected by the repeating market crises, the rate of organization stagnates and remains manifestly insufficient (35 % of the European production).

• The AREFLH's propositions

Very early, the AREFLH made propositions of lowering and simplification of the administrative procedures, improvement of the crisis prevention and management device, and more generally, intensification of the CMO attractiveness.

But numerous challenges remain:

  • the competitiveness, in a market more and more competitive and opened to the world offer
  • the adaptation of the production tool, laminated by the market crises
  • the adaptation to the distributors and consumers request, in a power racio very unfavourable to the producers
  • finally, the climate change, the environmental protection and the occupation of the rural territories.

LThe fruits and vegetables sector remains fundamentally related to the fruits and vegetables CMO, as progress tool. But it must be more efficient to give to the producers the means to secure better their incomes and to face the international competition.

Details of the orientations for 2008:
Web site of the European Commission

Letter to the European Commissioner

Consult the pdf lette from AREFLH, to Mr Dacian CIOLOS, European Commissioner in charge of Agriculture and Rural Development of June 21th, 2010.

Producers Organisations

pdf Présentation of Morgan SERFIOTIS - DG AGRI "Fruit & Vegetable sector - Data analysis 2000-2007 - Results and main trends"

Main regulations about the CMO reform

Consult the Council regulations N° 1580 / 2007 - N° 1234 / 2007 - N° 1182 / 2007