Work Flow COPACOGECA

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Klaas Johan Osinga - Vice Chairman COPA-COGECA
Working Party Animal Health Welfare
COPA-COGECA
Protecting Animal Health new forms for
dialogue with and between stakeholders Brussels,
12th of June 2008
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What is COPA-COGECA ?
1. COPA-COGECA two strong organisations

• COPA-COGECA represents
• over 15 million people working on EU farm
  holdings either full-time or part-time and
• more than 40,000 co-operatives
• COPA-COGECA has more than 70 Member Organisations
  from all EU Member States

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The EU food chain .

• Scientists, feed companies, pharmaceutical
  companies, vets, farmers, traders,
  slaughterhouses, food companies, retailers,
  consumers, animal welfare groups..
• We share many interests
• But do we know?

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The EU food chain .
Main goals -gt protecting animal health
welfare -gt while keeping EU-trade going Are we
ready for the many challenges ahead?
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Challenges (1) Population growth.
Increasing demand for animal protein -gt internatio
nal trade increasing -gt international
consolidation of food chain partners
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Challenges (2) The international dairy market



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Italy
Albania
Hong Kong, China
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
Austria
Czech Republic
Jordan
Kyrgyz Republic
G-90
Belgium
Moldova
LDCs
Slovenia
Morocco
Spain
Denmark
Maldives
Germany
NEW
Myanmar
EU
Portugal
France
Greece
Oman
Armenia
Bangladesh
Solomon Islands
Estonia
Ireland
Georgia
Netherlands
Malta
ACP
Finland
Croatia
Cambodia
Sweden
United Kingdom
Latvia
Cyprus
Niger
Poland

Nepal
Lithuania
Sierra Leone
Luxemburg

Papua New Guinea
Hungary
Togo
Lesotho
Slovak Republic
Guinea Bissau
Macao, China
Guinea
Djibouti
Malawi
Dominica
Burundi
Romania
Mali
Gambia
Rwanda
G-20
Chad
Mauritania
Singapore
Dem. Rep. of the Congo
US
Mexico
Gabon
Fiji
Central African Republic
Haiti
Ecuador
Namibia
Burkina Faso
Ghana
India
Zambia
Madagascar
China
El Salvador
Senegal
Uganda
Congo
G-33
Venezuela
Grenada
Cuba
Tanzania
Suriname
Guyana

Benin
Brunei Darussalam
Côte dIvoire
St. Vincent Grenadines
Pakistan
Dominican Republic
Botswana
Zimbabwe
Antigua and Barbuda
Sri Lanka
Barbados
Belize
Mozambique
Indonesia
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Trinidad and Tobago
Cameroon
Philippines
CAIRNS
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chile
Honduras
Saint Lucia
Turkey
Kenya
Thailand
Peru
Jamaica
Australia
Colombia
Uruguay
Bolivia
Mauritius
Canada
Mongolia
Panama
Australia
Paraguay
Costa Rice
South Africa
Argentina
Malaysia
New Zealand
Angola
Korea
Guatemala
Brazil
Egypt
Swaziland
Switzerland
Kingdom of Bahrain
Tunisia
Chinese Taipei
United Arab Emirates
Norway
WTO many countries..
Iceland
Liechtenstein
Kuwait
Bulgaria
AU
Israel
Japan
G-10
Qatar
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Challenges (2) More trade open borders
Mobility of persons and animals increasing, and
animal products with it Also outside
agriculture We are in daily (in)direct contact
with farming systems that used to be so very
distant from ours
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Challenges (3) Increasing mobility


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Challenges (4) Illegal trade increasing

Wild animals (bush)meat Other animal products

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Challenges (5) Climate change

• Bluetongue just a warning signal?
• What about others, like
• African Swine Fever ?
• West Nile Disease ?
• African Horse Sickness ?

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Predicted climate change Europe


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Challenges (5) Economic impact of diseases
increasing
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Challenges (summary) Our environment changes
rapidly...

• Increasing demand for food
• Increasing mobility
• Illegal trade of animals / animal products
• Climate change
• Economic impact of outbreaks increasing

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What we need.

• a more flexible approach to animal disease
  control
• better co-operation between authorities and
  stakeholders
• improvement of dialogue between and with
  stakeholders

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Improving stakeholder dialogue Example
vaccination

• - In some cases the OIE code and EU legislation
  include emergency vaccination options. This
  leads to the question whether the market (food
  chain partners) would accept products (meat,
  milk, eggs) from vaccinated animals.
• In other cases the vaccines are not (yet)
  recognised by the OIE code. This leads to the
  question whether international markets (trading
  partners) would accept trading of animals and
  /or of products from vaccinated animals
• Examples CSF, FMD, AI,

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Improving stakeholder dialogue COPA-COGECA
started EU food chain approach


Subject control of FMD and CSF in the EU Start
2002 Participants COPA-COGECA, UECBV, EDA,
EUROCOMMERCE, CLITRAVI, FESASS, BEUC, EUROGROUP
for Animals, IFAH-Europe, FVE (later)
Eurocoop Title Food chain partners explain
their understanding of EU infectious animal
disease control policy, including possible
emergency vaccination and the safety for
consumption of products from emergency vaccinated
animals

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Improving stakeholder dialogue Conclusions
(October 2006)

COPA-COGECA, UECBV, CLITRAVI, EDA, EUROCOMMERCE,
EUROCOOP, FESASS, BEUC, EUROGROUP for Animals,
IFAH EUROPE FVE are considering, on an
individual, bi-lateral or multilateral basis (to
be defined on a case by case basis) To avoid
trade restrictions in case of outbreaks, through
communication and by ensuring agreement between
authorities inside and outside EU concerning
marketing of products from vaccinated animals,
and that the systems in use are safe in regard to
separation and traceability of products from
vaccinated and unvaccinated animals. Such
agreements should ensure full recognition of OIE
recommendations. To create awareness to EU
Decision 90/424/EEC which gives an option to buy
up products from emergency vaccinated animals in
case they find no market. This might be the case
for cooked pig meat and deboned veal. To request
from the OIE that approved test methods be
described to be used to ensure that vaccinated
herds/animals are free from virus infection. To
tackle with competent authorities the problem of
the acceptance of products from animals
vaccinated where a vaccine without registration
in most Member States has been used.

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Improving stakeholder dialogue Lessons learnt so
far

• What seems obvious, may not be obvious to others
• Stakeholder-targeted communication is key
  (consumers, retailers, farmers, scientists, local
  authorities)
• Brussels is a distant place ... Stakeholders also
  have the plight to explain support the EU
• Build and maintain the network in peacetime
• Be open en frank? Build trust.

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Improving stakeholder dialogue What do we need to
discuss?

• Improvement of bio-security at all levels
• Farmers, traders, authorities
• - Development of legislation/procedures that
  can cope with rapidly evolving situations
• Emergency registration procurement of
  vaccines
• Trade compatible animal disease control
• OIE-accepted diagnostic tools methods
• - Inclusion of all dimensions in the debate
• economics, ethics, science, uncertainties

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Improving stakeholder dialogue What do we need to
discuss?

• Improvement of monitoring surveillance
• exchange of information using our network
• - The role of the new CAHP Advisory Group
• scoping papers
• - Who leads ?
• We all have specific concern retail, consumers,
  farmers.
• Who communicates what to whom?
• We must be prepared to communicate (24/7) in
  order to build trust
• Prepare statements, develop Q A forms.
• How to deal with uncertainties and situations of
  low risk?

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