MAGAZINE - Copa-Cogeca
MAGAZINE - Copa-Cogeca
MAGAZINE - Copa-Cogeca
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2 │ April 2012<br />
CONTENTS<br />
• <strong>Copa</strong>-<strong>Cogeca</strong> Secretary-General talks on EU<br />
Trade Policy................................................. 3<br />
• <strong>Copa</strong> President Gerd Sonnleitner presents<br />
new <strong>Copa</strong>-<strong>Cogeca</strong> detailed reaction to EU<br />
commission proposals on CAP post-2013,<br />
highlighting measures to ensure food<br />
security, productivity, sustainable growth<br />
and employment........................................ 4<br />
• Chairman of <strong>Copa</strong>-<strong>Cogeca</strong> working party on<br />
promotion policy Mr Jochum Broadly<br />
welcomes new EU commission plans on<br />
future promotion policy and highlights need<br />
for good budget.......................................... 5<br />
• MEP LA VIA warns final decision on CAP<br />
could be held up by EU budget talks........... 6<br />
• <strong>Copa</strong>-<strong>Cogeca</strong> welcomes Ciolos move to<br />
create high level group on wine planting<br />
rights but warns it must not delay proposals<br />
to keep planting rights in sector ................ 7<br />
• Euro Coop highlights benefits of principles<br />
of good practice in food chain and events<br />
scheduled for international year of<br />
cooperatives............................................... 8<br />
• Many aspects of future EU rural<br />
development policy proposals welcomed<br />
but serious concerns over IFA review, Peter<br />
Pascher chairman of commission advisory<br />
group “rural development” stresses........... 9<br />
• Falkenberg claims currently looking into<br />
applying at international level same high EU<br />
production and environmental standards to<br />
imports and stepping up controls............. 11<br />
• Interview with Danish Agriculture Minister<br />
Mette Gjerskov on greening and the EU<br />
Commissions' future Common Agriculture<br />
Policy (CAP) proposals.............................. 12<br />
• In International Year of Cooperatives 2012,<br />
<strong>Cogeca</strong> President Paolo Bruni highlights<br />
crucial role cooperatives play in market<br />
place and outlines events for 2012 .......... 15<br />
• <strong>Copa</strong>-<strong>Cogeca</strong> calls for private storage aid for<br />
olive oil to be opened and for long-term<br />
strategic plan for sector............................ 16