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Centre de liaison des industries transformatrices de viande de l'UE

CLITRAVI

CLITRAVI represents the interests of the European meat processing industry.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Claire Bury (Deputy Director-General Health and Food Safety)

27 Jan 2026 · brief overview of the Simplification Omnibus

Meeting with Alisa Tiganj (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen) and European farmers and

30 Apr 2025 · • ELV five recommendations for the Vision for the Future of EU Agriculture and for the mandate • Presentation of ELV (European Livestock Voice) • Exchange of views: Vision for the future of Livestock • EU Trade policy review: State of play

Response to Update of the food safety criterion regarding Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods

7 May 2024

CLITRAVI, the European Meat Processing Industry representatives, is submitting feedback on the consultation regarding the update of safety criteria of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods. Our input is contained within the attached document and is mostly in line with the ones submitted by other food and drink associations such as EDA, ECFF, Eucolait and the Chilled Food Association
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Meeting with Maria Grapini (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Dec 2023 · Meat Processing

Response to Updating the legislation related to the hygiene rules for products of animal origin

25 May 2023

La modification du projet de règlement 853/2004 relatif à lhygiène des denrées alimentaires prévoit la modification de la marque de salubrité pour changer CE par UE (dans la version linguistique française): En effet, il est prévu de modifier le contenu de la marque de salubrité (annexe II section 1 point 8) le paragraphe actuel est : « Lorsqu'elle est appliquée dans un établissement situé dans la Communauté, la marque doit être de forme ovale et inclure l'abréviation CE, EC, EF, EG, EK, EO, EY, ES, EÜ, EK, EB, EZ ou WE. » La proposition de modification est : When applied in an establishment located within the Union, the mark must be oval in shape and include the abbreviation of European Union (EU) in one of the official languages of the Union as follows: EC, EU, EL, UE, EE, AE, ES, EÚ En effet, cette modification nous pose des problèmes puisqu'elle : - nécessitera la modification de toutes les étiquettes, de tous les documents administratifs porteurs de cette information, - impliquera la révision de la plupart des listes dagrément à lexportation - engendrera la révision de la plupart des certificats sanitaires - provoquera de très probables problèmes de blocage de produits aux frontières des pays tiers (on la déjà vécu lors du passage de CEE à CE) - introduit une distorsion de concurrence entre les Etats membres puisque certaines versions linguistiques ne seront pas concernées (EC reste inchangé) Il nous semble que cette évolution ne va de plus pas dans sens de la "better regulation" prônée par la Commission européenne avec un coût très supérieur au bénéfice. Le CLITRAVI demande donc que cette proposition d'évolution ne soit pas conservée. Nous remercions en avance les services de la DG SANTÉ pour examiner cette deamnde. Meilleures salutations, Dirk Dobbelaere www.clitravi.eu Jeudi, le 25 mai 2023
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Meeting with Roberto Berutti (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

7 Jun 2022 · Taxonomy

Meeting with Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner) and

27 Jan 2022 · 2022 Annual Work Programme of the EU Promotion Policy

Meeting with Christiane Kirketerp De Viron (Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn) and European agri-cooperatives and

14 Dec 2021 · Agricultural Promotion Policy

Response to Sustainable food system – setting up an EU framework

22 Oct 2021

CLITRAVI supports the target of an inclusive and fair transition to implement the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals. The meat processing sector is fully in line with the ambition of providing safe, nutritious and high quality food with the minimum environmental and societal impact. A swift transition towards more sustainable food systems should be made in a holistic, fair and coordinated way, gathering the inputs and in cooperation with all actors in the food and feed supply chain, including at national, regional and global levels. To this extent CLITRAVI welcomes the European Commission’s public consultation on how to ensure policy coherence for food sustainability at various governance levels, within and between the EU Farm to Fork Strategy and other EU legislation and policy. While harmonization and coeherence needs to inspire the whole roadmap, we fully believe that any regulatory intervention should be limited to areas where there is a proven need for it, while soft-law instruments can, at the same time, contribute in the long term to the transition towards a Union sustainable food system. To this extent a combination between policy option 2 and policy option 3 could contribute to an adequate and harmonized implementation of the UN Sustainable Develompent Goals in the EU. In any case it is important that the transition towards sustainable food systems does not superseed those pillars which made the EU foodstuffs appreciated and recognized at the global level: quality and safety. The sustainable food systems framework should also encompass the attached requirements.
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Response to Animal welfare labelling for food

23 Aug 2021

CLITRAVI welcomes the inception impact assessment on the Revision of the EU legislation on animal welfare. The European meat processing industry believes that animal welfare is a key enabler for a resilient and profitable livestock chain and to this extent the EU meat processors are fully committed to implement practical solutions to address animal welfare issues. CLITRAVI recognizes the important relationships between animal welfare, livestock enterprise productivity, animal health, and food safety. The scope of animal welfare standards has expanded in recent years due in part to new and increased use of animal-based health and welfare assessment criteria. In addition to looking at inputs related to husbandry practices, resources, and facilities design, the livestock chain is focusing on additional positive features of the production systems. This trend is based on the growing realization that increased welfare benefits for animals can be achieved using a range of practical approaches that are best suited to country or region-specific conditions. While the meat processing industry supports the alignment of the EU animal welfare legislation with the latest scientific evidence and easier conditions to enforce the rules, CLITRAVI wants to raise the attached comments on section d) on animal welfare labelling.
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Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and European farmers and

31 May 2021 · Exchange on Farm to Fork Strategy with European Livestock Voice

Response to Authorisation to feed poultry with processed animal protein derived from farmed insects or domestic porcine animals

29 Mar 2021

EFPRA, the European Fat Processors and Renderers Association, welcomes the long awaited relaxation of the feed ban for non-ruminant Processed Animal Protein (PAP) from pig and poultry to be fed to poultry and pigs respectively. The new legislation covers safe sourcing, processing, transport and use, guaranteeing full traceability at all stages. This step is also an important move to develop the European Union into a more sustainable Economy as recently set up in the Green Deal. Taking into account that up to 40% of an animal is anyway not destined for human consumption, the processing of these animal by-products into highly valuable feed ingredients is a key of a bio-circular economy. PAPs belong therefore to the proteins with the lowest Carbon Footprint worldwide. Using them now in feed for food producing animals will strengthen the European livestock farmers and meat industry in their onoing efforts to become carbon-neutral.
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Response to Information and promotion measures for agricultural and food products in the internal market and in non-EU countries

4 Mar 2021

CLITRAVI is the European Association for the Meat Processing Industry and represents about 13,000 (mainly small and medium sized) companies active in the production of a wide variety of meat products in the European Union. The European meat processing industry takes the opportunity to provide comments (please see Annex) on the European Commission's Inception Impact Assessment on "EU farm and food products – review of policy on promotion inside and outside the EU".
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Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

18 Feb 2021 · Pact for Skills roundtable with the representatives of agri-food sector.

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

18 Feb 2021 · Pact for Skills roundtable with the representatives of agri-food sector

Meeting with Agne Razmislaviciute-Palioniene (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

10 Feb 2021 · Farm to Fork Strategy

Meeting with Annukka Ojala (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides), Ines Prainsack (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)

27 Jan 2021 · VC Meeting - Sustainable Food Systems

Response to Setting of nutrient profiles

25 Jan 2021

CLITRAVI is the European Association for the Meat Processing Industry and represents about 13,000 (mainly small and medium sized) companies active in the production of a wide variety of meat products in the European Union. The European meat processing industry takes the opportunity to provide comments (see attached file) on the Inception Impact Assessment (IIA) on the Proposal for a revision of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers.
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Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

8 May 2020 · Sustainable food systems

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

16 Apr 2020 · COVID crisis: exit and recovery of the agro-food ecosystem

Meeting with Anne Bucher (Director-General Health and Food Safety)

24 Jul 2019 · SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY (SPS) POLICY WITHIN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Response to Draft Commission Regulation (EU) on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in traditionally smoked meat and ...

18 Jul 2019

CLITRAVI, the European Association for the Meat Manufacturing Industry, agrees with the proposal making the derogations for PAHs in traditionally smoked meat products and fish permanent in a series of Member States. Yours sincerely, Dirk Dobbelaere Secretary General www.clitravi.eu
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Meeting with Risto Artjoki (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen), Xavier Coget (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

17 Jun 2019 · Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues

Response to Evaluation of the EU agricultural promotion policy

10 Aug 2018

The European meat processing industry fully supports the promotion measures, which are precious instruments to open up new market opportunities, as well as helping EU farmers and food processors to improve their existing business. The European promotion policy is essential to increase both consumers’ awareness of the EU agricultural products and to boost the competitiveness and consumption of EU agricultural products both in the EU and in the Third Countries. CLITRAVI welcomes the evaluation of the EU agricultural promotion policy and supports the purpose and scope as presented in the roadmap. In particular the European meat processing industry believes that it is important to: - give a central role to the experience of the actors involved in the promotion campaigns in order to find additional means of simplification; - carefully examine the coherence among the promotion policy, other initiatives carried on by the Commission and the trade agenda of the EU; - measure the effectiveness of the aid allocated to information and promotion initiatives on internal market and results achieved also in terms of reputation of the products at the eyes of consumer; - assess the role of the promotion policy to restore consumers’ confidence. CLITRAVI would like to express its commitment to this evaluation and will be available to share the view of the European meat processing industry with regard to the implementation of the promotion policy.
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Response to Initiative to improve the Food Supply Chain

8 Jun 2018

CLITRAVI is the European Association for the Meat Processing Industry and represents about 13,000 companies active in the production of a wide variety of meat products in the European Union. The meat processing industry in Europe is mainly composed of small and medium sized companies employing 350 000 persons with more than 80 billion € sales. The vast majority of these SMEs operate since many generations in rural areas throughout Europe. CLITRAVI welcomes the European Commission proposal proposal for a Directive on unfair trading practices (UTPs) in the food supply chain.We are deeply convinced that this long awaited (nearly 10 years) text, if adopted, will create a minimum harmonisation at the EU level without endangering well-functioning existing systems already in place in some Member States. Among other concerns, CLITRAVI is nevertheless worried with the limited scope of the proposal, covering only SMEs suppliers. A successful approach to combating the UTPs needs to be applicable to all players in the supply chain, regardless of their size, as it would therefore impact all the commercial relations. Moreover, it is crucial to ensure an effective cooperation between enforcement authorities addressing transnational UTPs that could otherwise be left unchallenged. Finally CLITRAVI believes that self-regulatory frameworks cannot be the sole solution as they failed almost everywhere because as given the ratios of forces on the market it is improbable that such an issue will find a suitable solution through free negotiations between the parties. Please find attached the last position containing the general point of view of the EU meat processing sector on the UTPs.
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Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

27 Feb 2018 · Business discussion

Response to Commission Implementing Regulation on the provision of voluntary indication of origin or place of provenance of foods

23 Jan 2018

The Liaison Centre for the Meat Processing Industry in the European Union (CLITRAVI) is the professional organization whose aim is to represent the interest of the European Meat Processing Industry. CLITRAVI represents about 13,000 companies which together manufacture around 14 Mio tonnes of meat products. The European Meat Processing Industry employs about 350,000 people and represents a turnover of 81 billion Euros. CLITRAVI welcomes the draft Commission Implementing Regulation laying down rules for the application of Article 26(3) of Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, as regards the rules for indicating the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient of a food where different to that given for that food. The European Meat Processing Industry supports the draft proposal and recognizes that a harmonized approach is needed to make a step forward towards the implementation of the origin labelling requirements laid down in the Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 and to reinforce the Single Market of foodstuffs.
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Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

7 Sept 2017 · Business discussion

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

8 Sept 2016 · Agri Matters

Meeting with Marco Valletta (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

1 Mar 2016 · Animal welfare

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

7 Sept 2015 · Russia, Pig Castration, Official Control

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

9 Jun 2015 · Country of origin labelling for meat as ingredient

Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

1 Jun 2015 · Country of origin labelling

Meeting with Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

27 Apr 2015 · Industrial Policy