Workshop on
Producer Organisations
AGR IND/EXP 57369
organised in co-operation with
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Venue :
TO BE DEFINED, Israel
Date:
10 - 12 November 2014
For more information on TAIEX assistance and to download presentations of this event,
please go to: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex.
Aim of the meeting :
The aim of the workshop is to introduce to the Israeli stakeholders
the objectives and principles of agricultural supporting measures in
the EU by focusing on the EU measures for obtaining
competitiveness and a more market-oriented agricultural sector.
Beneficiary :
Israel
Day 1 : Monday 10 November 2014
Chair : 08:30 Registration of participants
09:00 Welcome by the Ministry of Agriculture
 national expert
09:10 Introduction of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU
(background, history, development, objectives, beneficiaries, budget)
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun, Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry,
France
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Overview of specific CAP policies for sectors with support for producer
organisations (fruit and vegetables, milk)
 Ms. Emilie Colombo, FranceAgriMer, France
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Producer organisations (POs) – background (history, differences between
PO's and cooperatives, organisation rate, differences between countries)
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 EU policies supporting POs (objectives, budget, Operational plan, activities
receiving support, agricultural sectors benefitting from support of POs)
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
17:00 Closing remarks and discussion – Is the support of producer organisations a
feasible strategy for Israeli agricultural policy?
 Ms. Emilie Colombo
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
Day 2 : Tuesday 11 November 2014
Chair : 09:00 Producer Organisations (POs) – from a PO request to receiving of support
(establishment, requirements, administration of requests "behind the
scenes)
 Ms. Emilie Colombo, FranceAgriMer, France
10:00 POs and antitrust regulation
 Jonas Anne Braun, Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry, France
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Operational plans – statistics, examples, case studies, monitoring and
evaluation
 Ms. Emilie Colombo
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Implementation of policy (constraints hindering the establishment of POs /
attracting farmers to establish a PO, differences in implementation between
countries, national strategies of EU member countries)
 Ms. Emilie Colombo
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Comparison of support to POs with other support policies (advantages and
disadvantages, criteria and measurement of impact/success of support
policies, Are farmers better off?)
Possibilities to improve support policy for producer organisations? Planned
EU policy changes?
 Ms. Emilie Colombo
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
17:00 Closing remarks and discussion – feasibility of implementation for Israeli
policy
 national expert
Day 3 : Wednesday 12 November 2014
Chair : 09:00 Policies for risk and crisis management – Overview (types of risk in
agriculture, policy objectives, overview of instruments)
 Ms. Emilie Colombo
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Crisis prevention and management: Instruments, application, case study
(e.g. Russian ban of EU food imports)
 Ms. Emilie Colombo
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Other instruments for risk and crisis management (e.g. insurances, longterm contracts, mutual funds, direct support) – advantages and
disadvantages, instruments implemented by EU policy
 Ms. Emilie Colombo
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Support for small farmers/family farms (Should small farms / family farms
be favoured? Policy instruments, evaluation, efficiency of policies in delaying
structural change, effects on farmers' income, prices and welfare, current
support policies and their distributional effects (e.g. mainly benefiting larger
farms?)
 Mr. Jonas Anne Braun
17:00 Closing remarks and discussion – conclusions for Israeli policy
 national expert
This meeting is being organised by the
Technical Assistance Information Exchange Instrument
of the European Commission
L-15 04/90 , B - 1049 Brussels
Telephone: +32-2-296 73 07 , Fax: +32-2-296 76 94
Web site http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex