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EDA Dairy Policy Conference 2017 Dairy - Jobs, Growth and Investment in the Common market

Yesterday, the EDA Dairy Policy Conference 2017 brought

about 200 representatives of the European dairy industry

together, in Brussels. 60 years after the Treaty of Rome was

signed on 25 March 1957, this edition of the EDA Dairy Policy

Conference puts the EU Single Market in the centre of the

debate, and highlighted how and to what extent dairy

contributes to the core missions of the EU Commission: Jobs,

Growth and Investment.

EDA Chair Michel Nalet (photo on the right) opened the Conference:

“Let’s put the Single Market in the centre of the debate of the 60 years of

the Treaty of Rome”.

The first session offered a high-level perspective on where the Single

Market stands today and on the complexity of the different food supply

chains and the ways to improve its functioning in Europe, for the benefit

of the citizens and for the food sector.

International Dairy

Magazine’s report

IDM’s pre-print exclusive

version of their report on

EDA’s Conference on

‘Dairy - Jobs, Growth and

Investment in the

Common

market’ is

available

on our

website

(➤ link)

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Wim Kloosterboer (EDA Trade &

Economics Cmte. chair, FrieslandCampina)

moderated the first session: “Let’s uncork

the potential of the Single Market”.

Gilles Morel (President Mars Chocolate

Europe & Eurasia, FoodDrinkEurope Chair)

reminded how "the single market has

helped us to become the 1st manufacturing

sector".

The second session focused on the impact of

different national implementations of the CAP and

further re-nationalisations of the CAP which

influence the competitivity of the dairy industry

within the Single Market.

Discussions were raised on the future of the Single

Market, at a time when Brexit can be considered as

a big challenge.

MEP Dan Dalton (ECR, UK): “Non-tariff barriers are

the main challenge in the Single Market, driven by anti

-EU feelings.”

From left to right: Deputy director general Antti Ilmari Pel-

tomäki (DG GROW), Wim Kloosterboer (EDA Trade & Econo-

mics Cmte. chair, FrieslandCampina) & Gilles Morel (President

Mars Chocolate Europe & Eurasia, FoodDrinkEurope Chair)

From left to right: EDA Chair Michel Nalet, Roel Jongeneel

(Wageningen University) and Kasper Thormod Nielsen

(Arla Foods) Kasper Thormod Nielsen

(Arla Foods): “Farmers in 7 different EU Mem-

ber States, facilities in 8 EU Member States –

Arla is built on the Single Market, we are

ONE supply chain."

MEP Dan Dalton (ECR, UK)