Comité du commerce des céréales, aliments du bétail, oléagineux, huile d'olive, huiles et graisses et agrofournitures de l'U.E.

COCERAL

Coceral objectives are to represent and promote the interests of the grain, feedstuffs, rice, olive oil and agro-supply trade associations operating within Europe; to proactively monitor and guide EU policy makers in market, food safety and environmental matters; to promote strategies for provision of safe food ingredients and feed raw materials for the benfit of EU processors and consumers; to publish reports and position papers for stakeholders.

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Lobbying Activity

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EC) 1107/2009, Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, Regulation (EU) 528/2012, Regulation (EC) 1831/2003, Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, Regulation (EC) No 853/2004, Regulation 1099/2009, Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and Directive 98/58/EC, as regards simplifying and clarifying food and feed safety requirements

14 Oct 2025

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... on the methods of sampling and analysis for the control of pesticide residues in and on food and feed of plant and animal origin, and repealing Directive 2002/63/EC

28 Jul 2025

Meeting with Johannes Van Den Bossche (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen) and

15 Jul 2025 · Risk of supply shortages for critical EU Agrifood- & feed-imports linked to geopolitical turbulence and EUDR implementation

Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Apr 2025 · New Genomic Technics (Staff level

Meeting with Irene Sacristan Sanchez (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety) and

28 Apr 2025 · Commission proposal on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques (NGT proposal)

Meeting with Fabien Santini (Head of Unit Agriculture and Rural Development), Koen Dillen (Head of Unit Agriculture and Rural Development)

9 Apr 2025 · CMO amendments

Meeting with Pierre Bascou (Deputy Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development) and

17 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on the Vision for the Future of Agriculture and agri-food trade.

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

13 Mar 2025 · Vision for the future of agriculture

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulations (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) 2021/2115 and (EU) 2021/2116 as regards the strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain

28 Feb 2025

Response to COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... on supplementing Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, by further extending the scope of the data to be included in the Union database to cover relevant data from the point of production or collection of the raw material used for the fuel production

6 Nov 2024

Response to Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the Association Committee in Trade configuration established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member states, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other concerning the acceleration or broadening of the scope of the elimination of customs duties.

30 Sept 2024

Response to Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Directive 96/53/EC laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Community the maximum authorised dimensions in national and international traffic and the maximum authorised weights in international traffic

28 Aug 2024

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761 with regard to the management of certain tariff quotas in the rice sector, the adjustment of cheese export tariff quotas for the United States and an update of the technical specifications for the IMA1 certificates for the import of dairy products from New Zealand

8 Jul 2024

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

28 May 2024 · EU grain transport and related logistical issues

Meeting with Miriam Garcia Ferrer (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

21 May 2024 · European Union Deforestation Regulation, Trade

Response to COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… on the use of bisphenol A (BPA) and other bisphenols and their derivatives with harmonised classification for specific hazardous properties in certain materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, amending Regulation (EU) No 10/2011, amending Regulation (EC) No 1895/2005 and repealing Regulation (EU) 2018/213

8 Mar 2024

Meeting with Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General Environment) and European Liaison Committee for Agriculture and agri-food trade

6 Mar 2024 · Short Introduction CELCAA and Policy Recommendations Strategic Dialogue on the future of Agriculture

Meeting with Eglantine Cujo (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and

9 Feb 2024 · Deforestation issues

Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

8 Feb 2024 · Geopolitical situation in the Red Sea and its impact on the EU Market

Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

8 Feb 2024 · The situation in the Red Sea

Response to COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... amending Annexes I and II to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum levels and action thresholds for arsenic, cadmium, lead, nickel, rye ergot, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, endosulfan, heptachlor, hexachlorbenzene, hexachlorohexane, dioxins and PCBs, Datura sp., certain coccidiostats and histomonostats and p-phenetidine in animal feed

2 Feb 2024

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625

3 Nov 2023

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

26 Oct 2023 · Table ronde avec les représentants de l'industrie sur la proposition de règlement sur les nouveaux OGM

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

7 Sept 2023 · Exchange of views on the situation of exports of grain from Ukraine through Solidarity Lanes

Meeting with Wolfgang Burtscher (Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development)

7 Sept 2023 · information from COCERAL on grain export from Ukraine related issues

Meeting with Andreas Schneider (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

7 Jun 2023 · COCERAL’s Annual General meeting. Forum for exchange from a variety of perspectives.

Meeting with Wolfgang Burtscher (Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development)

24 Apr 2023 · consequences of import restrictions with respect to grains on traders

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

15 Sept 2022

Meeting with Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner) and

19 Jul 2022 · Facilitation of export of grains from Ukraine

Meeting with Wolfgang Burtscher (Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development)

7 Jul 2022 · Exchange of views about food security

Response to Report assessing the rationale and legal feasibility of applying EU health and environmental standards (including animal welfare standards as well as processes and production methods) to imported agricultural and agri-food products as well as identifying the concrete initiatives to ensure better consistency in their application, in conformity with WTO rules

16 Mar 2022

Response to Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Union the maximum authorised dimensions in national and international traffic and the maximum authorised weights in international traffic (codification)

1 Feb 2022

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism

17 Nov 2021

Response to Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an EU framework for a Union sustainable food system

26 Oct 2021

Meeting with Maciej Golubiewski (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

24 Sept 2021 · EU Farm to Fork strategy

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... on rules to verify sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria

27 Jul 2021

Response to [multi acts] Revision of Commission Implementing and Delegated Regulations on EU marketing standards for agricultural products under the Common Organisation of the Market to ensure the uptake and supply of sustainable products, and modernise, simplify and align them, as well as a proposal to revise the ‘Breakfast Directives’ for the same purposes

15 Feb 2021

Response to Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers

3 Feb 2021

Response to Communication on the development of a contingency plan at EU level setting up a common EU food crisis response mechanism to ensure food supply and food security in times of crises affecting the EU’s food system, to be coordinated by the Commission and involving Member States

12 Jan 2021

Response to New EU Soil Strategy - healthy soil for a healthy life

10 Dec 2020

Meeting with Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean) and

29 Oct 2020 · EU Biofuels Chain

Response to Revision of Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides with accompanying Impact Assessment

7 Aug 2020

Response to COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… amending the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the hygiene of foodstuffs as regards food allergen management, redistribution of food and food safety culture

6 Aug 2020

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on Trade policy review, including WTO reform initiative

13 Jul 2020

Meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) and

9 Jul 2020 · To discuss issues related to global deforestation, such as measures to tackle deforestation and initiatives related to supply chain sustainability.

Meeting with Catherine Geslain-Laneelle (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski), Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski) and

22 Apr 2020 · Responsible sourcing of commodities aimed at avoiding deforestation or other adverse environmental and climate change impacts

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the Farm to Fork Strategy for a Sustainable Food System

16 Mar 2020

Response to Minimising the risk of deforestation and forest degradation associated with products placed on the EU market

4 Mar 2020

Response to Fitness check of legislation related to access to the internal market in the field of inland waterway transport

26 Aug 2019

Response to COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the rules for the administration of import and export tariff quotas subject to licences and supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the lodging of securities in the administration of tariff quotas

22 Aug 2019

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... laying down rules for the application of Regulations (EU) No 1306/2013, (EU) No 1308/2013 and (EU) No 510/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the management system of tariff quotas with licences

22 Aug 2019

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... on the temporary increase of official controls and emergency measures governing the entry into the Union of certain goods from certain third countries implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/625 and (EC) 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 669/2009, (EU) No 884/2014, (EU) No 2015/175, (EU) No 2017/186 and (EU) 2018/1660