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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 – FTA’s developments IV – main concerns Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 2

I – What are Copa-Cogeca? Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 3

What are Copa-cogeca? Copa – Professional Farmers 60 farmers uinions together from 27 MS Cogeca – European Agri Cooperatives 35 national platform from 22 MS Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 4

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 organisations Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 5

II – Reality of the EU agri-trade Agriculture Bien-être des Chaîne animaux alimentaire Environnement Commerce Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 6

Trade and agriculture Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 7

EU exports mainly high quality products to developed countries * 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); Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 8

Foo dsecurity in danger ? - Net importers of : Agriculture - bovine carcass (in average 300 00 T); - cheapmeat (20% of the Consumption); - Corn (de 7 to 9 M. de tonnes); Bien-être des Chaîne animaux - vegetable proteins: 32 Mio. tonnes in eq. soycake (70% alimentaire of the EU needs) - fruits and vegetables: 10 toà 13 millions de T. Environnement Commerce Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 9

L’UE cultivate 35 millions ha outside UE to feed 500 millions of consumers Arable land exported Arable land imported Agriculture 50 50 Wheat Corn 40 40 Coarse Grains Rice Bien-être des Chaîne Soya 30 30 animaux alimentaire Palm Other Oilseeds 20 20 Sugar crops Coffee, Cocoa, Tea 10 10 Fruits Environnement Vegetables 0 0 Others Commerce 1999/2000 2007/2008 1999/2000 2007/2008 Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 10

III. FTAs development Agriculture Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 11

Mercosur - the most conflicting due to a direct confrontation on raw production (animal feed and beefmeat); Agriculture - Mercosur is already the first provider on beefmeat and third place forpoultry meat; Bien-être des - base on the Mercosur demand on 2006: cost for EU farming Chaîne animaux by 16 billions euros; alimentaire - major concerns on production standard for animal health, tracability Environnement Commerce Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 12

Canada - more flexible appraoch and mainly agro-food sector - EU get a slight posititiv balance (.5 billion euros); Agriculture - high canadian expectation on beef and pork sector; - not ambitious to open their market on dairy products; Bien-être des Chaîne animaux - reluctant to recognize GI’s. alimentaire Environnement Commerce Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 13

US - US is our 2 nd clients with a balance psoition (.3 billions euros); Agriculture - We export mainly FV, Wine and dairy products, - US expectation beef/pork and poultry meat; Bien-être des Chaîne - core issues will be SPS/animal welfare animaux alimentaire - reluctant to recognize GI’s. - timing : if a succes conclud in 2015 Environnement Commerce Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 14

Main concerns - Prefer option: WTO agreement; Agriculture - 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; Bien-être des Chaîne animaux - what about environmental standards ? alimentaire - labelling of origin and traceability system for processed products ? - organic production and mutual recognition; Environnement Commerce Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 15

Main concerns - Impact on EU farming may be devastating if imports are focus on quality products Agriculture - EU farmers will face a contraction of public support (-15%). Return from the market need to be improved !!! Bien-être des - Chaîne animaux alimentaire Environnement Commerce Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 16

Merci! www.copa-cogeca.eu Copa-Cogeca | The voice of European farmers and their cooperatives | 17