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11 April 2022

Survey on the promotion and protection of EU quality schemes on the Internet – AGROSMARTglobal

9 March 2022

AREPO welcomes FEVAO as an associate member!

Associate member GI protection Partnership Quality schemes

1 March 2022

EU GIs stakeholders express their concerns on the upcoming GI policy reform

AREPO participation Partnership Quality policy Quality schemes

10 November 2021

GI reform: the sectors unite against the weakening of the GI system

AREPO participation Partnership Quality policy Quality schemes

16 September 2021

MOVING’s Steering Committee: first year’s progress

AREPO participation EU project MOVING

14 September 2021

Agriculture MEPs approve agreement on CAP reform: what changes for EU Geographical Indications?

CAP Quality schemes

28 June 2021

Revision of EU GIs systems: EC publishes a summary of the contributions to the public consultation

Quality policy Quality schemes Sustainability

21 June 2021

The use of EU Geographical Indications as ingredients

AREPO study Ingredients Quality policy Quality schemes

17 June 2021

EU and the US agreed to suspend application of tariffs on each other’s exports

Trade policy

3 June 2021

AREPO welcomes UNIPR among its associate members!

Partnership

21 May 2021

Strength2Food final online conference

Quality policy Quality schemes Strength2Food

17 May 2021

AREPO welcomes AFIGIA as an associate member!

Non-agricultural products Partnership

26 April 2021

Strength2Food launches the first ever Strategic Guide on Sustainable Food Quality Schemes

Quality schemes Strength2Food Sustainability

26 April 2021

Heavy centralisation risks shifting new Common Agricultural Policy away from citizens and business needs

CAP

16 April 2021

European regions must have a central role in the governance, management and delivery of the future CAP!

CAP

14 April 2021

Revision of EU Quality Policy: AREPO contribution to strengthen EU GIs system

Quality policy

2 April 2021

FAO publication – The nutrition and health potential of geographical indication foods

Healthy diet

30 March 2021

AREPO General Assembly 2021 and Meeting of the Board of Producers

AREPO meeting

23 March 2021

Strengthening Geographical Indications

Quality policy

23 March 2021

Evaluation support study on the geographical indications and traditional specialities guaranteed protected in the EU

Quality policy

Events

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16.11.22
17.11.22

AGROSMARTglobal International Congress

10.00 am
Laguardia, Euskadi, SPAIN

20.10.22
21.10.22

3rd AGROSMARTglobal Transnational Forum for Intercooperation

10.00 am
Lisboa, PORTUGAL

17.10.22
19.10.22

MOVING Steering Committee Meeting, October 2022

10.00 am
Jura, SWITZERLAND

19.07.22
20.07.22

2nd AGROSMARTglobal Transnational Forum for Intercooperation

10.00 am
Alcázar de San Juan, SPAIN

05.07.22
08.07.22

Worldwide perspectives on Geographical Indications

10.00 am
Montpellier, FRANCE

21.06.22
23.06.22

1st AGROSMARTglobal Transnational Forum for Intercooperation

10.00 am
Bordeaux, FRANCE

13.06.22
14.06.22

Living Labs & Multi-Actor Platforms in rural areas

10.00 am
Pisa, ITALY

28.04.22

1st AREPO General Assembly of 2022

10.00 am
Bruxelles, BELGIUM

12.04.22

Test 2

12.00 am
Bruxelles

04.04.22

Test 1

12.00 am
Bruxelles

The Farm to Fork strategy is the European roadmap to address the challenge of designing a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system. Since it should set out the regulatory and non-regulatory measures needed to achieve this goal, several actions proposed by the Commission under this framework directly interest the EU quality schemes.

EU Quality Policy

EU Quality Policy aims to protect the names and characteristics of European agricultural products specific to a territory in order to promote their unique characteristics resulting from natural factors and traditional know-how linked to their geographical origin. This policy is the core of AREPO’s activity and its defence is our main mission.

Common Agricultural Policy

After a long negotiation process started in 2018, the last reform of the Common Agricultural Policy is coming to an end and the new CAP will come into force in January 2023, following a two-year transition period. Discover AREPO actions to achieve a right recognition of quality and origin products in the new CAP.

EU Promotion Policy

EU Promotion Policy helps EU agri-food sector professionals to finance information and promotion campaigns for breaking into international markets and making consumers more aware of the efforts made by European farmers to provide quality products. This policy is fundamental for the promotion of EU quality schemes in the internal market and in third countries and AREPO is currently contributing to its review.

Food Labelling

In the framework of the Farm to Fork strategy, the European Commission is considering options for several new food labelling initiatives to empower consumers to make healthy and sustainable food choices.

Organic Agriculture

Organic farming is a well-known and EU regulated food production system that contributes to deliver the ecosystem services needed for reaching EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity targets. As such, it is considered a major pillar of the F2F strategy for a transition towards a European sustainable food system.

Geographical indications for industrial and craft products

There is currently no EU-wide system for protecting the geographical indications of non-agricultural products (such as handicrafts and industrial goods). Driven by a vision of GIs as tools for rural development and territorial planning, AREPO believes that a regulation at EU level is needed.

EU Trade Policy

The benefits of Geographical Indications (GIs) are particularly important from an international trade perspective as they can provide an export promotion mechanism through which the EU can compete on quality rather than price, due to their specificities attributable, at least in part, to their territories of origin and their inherent natural and human factors.

Research and Innovation

Adding value to products of origin through the development of sustainable GIs requires multi-disciplinary research, innovation and education in order to exploit their potential and respond rapidly to current challenges. Research and innovation should support the improvement of those products and use them as case study to extend good practices to other sectors.

EU projects

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MOVING

MOVING (MOuntain Valorization through INterconnectedness and Green growth) is a Horizon 2020 project (2020-2024) coordinated by the University of Córdoba, gathering 23 partner organisations. The project will build capacities and co-develop policy frameworks across Europe. It will establish new or upscaled value chains to contribute to the resilience and sustainability of mountain areas to climate change.

AGROSMARTglobal

AGROSMARTglobal is a 3.5 year EU co-funded project that started in October 2019. It aims to support the digital internationalisation of agri-food cooperatives in the Sudoe and to promote and protect quality and origin products on the international digital market. AREPO is involved in this project as an internal partner with a key role in the activities of GI protection on the Internet.

Strength2food

Strength2Food is a 5-year EU-funded project that started in March 2016. It aims to provide the EU and its Member States with evidence-based recommendations on the implementation of quality policy. AREPO has been invited to participate in the project as an expert member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB).

AGROSMARTcoop

AGROSMARTcoop was a 2.5 year EU co-funded project that ended in December 2018. It aimed to strengthen the economic development of rural areas belonging to the Sudoe through the research of efficient transnational solutions to support the competitiveness of agri-food cooperatives. AREPO was involved in this project as an internal partner with a key role in the results dissemination.

Association of European Regions

for Products of Origin

News

Survey on the promotion and protection of EU quality schemes on the Internet – AGROSMARTglobal

AREPO welcomes FEVAO as an associate member!

EU GIs stakeholders express their concerns on the upcoming GI policy reform

GI reform: the sectors unite against the weakening of the GI system

MOVING’s Steering Committee: first year’s progress

Agriculture MEPs approve agreement on CAP reform: what changes for EU Geographical Indications?

Revision of EU GIs systems: EC publishes a summary of the contributions to the public consultation

The use of EU Geographical Indications as ingredients

EU and the US agreed to suspend application of tariffs on each other’s exports

AREPO welcomes UNIPR among its associate members!

Strength2Food final online conference

AREPO welcomes AFIGIA as an associate member!

Strength2Food launches the first ever Strategic Guide on Sustainable Food Quality Schemes

Heavy centralisation risks shifting new Common Agricultural Policy away from citizens and business needs

European regions must have a central role in the governance, management and delivery of the future CAP!

Revision of EU Quality Policy: AREPO contribution to strengthen EU GIs system

FAO publication – The nutrition and health potential of geographical indication foods

AREPO General Assembly 2021 and Meeting of the Board of Producers

Strengthening Geographical Indications

Evaluation support study on the geographical indications and traditional specialities guaranteed protected in the EU

Events

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Farm to Fork Strategy

EU Quality Policy

Common Agricultural Policy

EU Promotion Policy

Food Labelling

Organic Agriculture

Geographical indications for industrial and craft products

EU Trade Policy

Research and Innovation

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MOVING

AGROSMARTglobal

Strength2food

AGROSMARTcoop

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