QPC

Agenda

The agenda of the main panel and three collateral workshops is as follows:

• Farming Requirements and Marketing Standards
• EU Quality Schemes
  
• Certification Schemes and Organic Farming

The agenda is based on the Green Paper issued by the European Commission in October 2008. More information about the document and EU Agricultural Quality Policy.

Targets

Conclusions of the Conference and the results of Green Paper public consultation will be used by the European Commission for the preparation and issue of the Communication on the Quality Policy scheduled for May 2009. The Communication could later result into draft amendments of legislation by the European Commission.

We expect that a deeper discussion may contribute to European Commission Communication preparation process as well as may be interesting for all participants at the Conference. The Conference might be a significant contribution of the Czech Presidency to the policy development and can contribute to the strengthening of the competitiveness of European products in the long term.

More information about the background of Quality Policy Conference.

Participants

Participants will include ministers of EU Member States and representatives of their offices and representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament and other professional organizations dealing with the quality of agricultural produce. The Conference and the workshops will be interpreted from/to Czech, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. The number of participants is estimated to 300; the programme will include the tasting of high-quality Czech food products.