Europe approves a key reform that will allow potato producers to join several organizations.
This week, the European Parliament approved in plenary session the two compromise amendments presented by rapporteur Céline Imart, fully supported by the UNPT, as part of the reform of the CAP’s Common Market Organization (CMO).
This change opens the door, in the coming years, to a stronger and more coherent organization of production, particularly in the processing sector.
The Imart report will now be the subject of final discussion; it is up to the European institutions to avoid distorting the text’s objective and transforming this progress into something definitive to anchor this improvement for producers.
The UNPT also urges all existing organizations to take advantage of this new regulation now to collectively strengthen the position of producers in the value chain, and is committed to supporting them during this major transition.
This progress is the result of long-standing union work, carried out consistently alongside the FNSEA and with French and European institutions. It illustrates the agricultural sector’s capacity to advance the European political framework and defend the economic future of producers and filières.For almost a decade, the UNPT has been advocating for the adaptation of European law to allow potato producers to belong to several producer organizations (POs), provided their production is destined for distinct and non-competitive markets. This means, in practice, that a potato producer must choose to join a PO focused on a single type of market, sacrificing other markets they also serve.
However, the same production can respond to very different economic and agronomic logics depending on its intended use: ware potatoes, chips, flakes, or even non-food uses. The current rule forces producers to make an artificial choice that fails to reflect the true diversity of their production and limits their ability to organize effectively in each of these markets.
The vote adopted today removes that obstacle. By incorporating the possibility of belonging to several non-competitive POs for the same product, within a legally secure framework, the European Parliament finally recognizes the specific characteristics of the potato—and other affected crops—and offers producers new tools to strengthen their collective organization according to different markets.
Fuente: Traducido por Argenpapa de: revistamercados.com
