Česká společnost ornitologická

More than 110 participants from 15 European countries visited the international conference “The CAP and the EU budget review – visions for the future” organized by Czech Society for Ornithology in cooperation with PRO-BIO Association of Ecological Farmers, BirdLife International, and the German Marshall Fund of the United in the building of the Chamber of Deputies on December 11th 2008. Conference was officially endorsed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic and the patronage over this event hold Czech M.P. Kateřina Jacques. Participants of the conference had an opportunity to listen to 21 speakers, 8 of them from the Czech Republic and 13 from EU countries. Please find bellow the speeches and the presentations from the conference.

SESSION 1— VISIONS FROM THE MEMBER STATES

Czech Republic

Perspectives for the Future of the CAP: a Preview from the Czech Presidency
Pavel Sekáč, Director General - Section Rural Development, Czech Ministry for Agriculture

Reaction from other member states:

Poland
Polish vision of the future of the CAP
Andrzej Dycha, Polish Undersecretary of State, Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Sweden
Swedish vision of the future of the CAP
Tomas Dahlman, Swedish Deputy DG and Head of Division for EU Coordination and International Affairs, Swedish Ministry of Agriculture

Austria
Austrian vision of the future of the CAP_German
Austrian vision of the future of the CAP_English
Peter Hancvencl, Agrarian Attache, Austrian Embassy in Prague

France
French vision of the future of the CAP
Bernard Boidin, Economic and Commercial Counsellor, French Embassy in Prague

Germany
German vision of the future of the CAP
Ludwig Nellinger, Deputy Head of section, Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, Germany

Netherland
European Agricultural Policy 2020 - The Outlook of the Netherlands
Dutch vision of the future of the CAP.pdf
J.M. (Hans) Brand, Senior Policy Advisor , Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality

United Kingdom
UK vision of the future of the CAP - summary of the conference speech
"A Vision for the Common Agriculture Policy" - HM Treasury and Defra document from December 2005
Nicola Clarke, Project Manager - CAP Reform and EU Strategy Programme, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

SESSION 2— ROLE OF THE CAP IN PROVIDING PUBLIC GOODS—FOOD, CLIMATE & BIODIVERSITY

“Food Security,” A Policy for Europe
Alan Matthews, Professor of European Agricultural Policy, Trinity College, Dublin

Is the current CAP working for farmers?
Martin Fantyš, Secretary of the Czech Agrarian Chamber/COPA-COGECA

Special Report No 8/2008 - Is cross compliance an effective policy?
Robert Markus, Principal Administrator, European Court of Auditors

What kind of farming does European biodiversity need?
Ariel Brunner, EU Agriculture Policy Officer, Birdlife International

SESSION 3—SUSTAINABLE FARMING, WHAT ROAD AHEAD?

Visions for farming models in the 21st Century
Filip Vávra and Bořivoj Šarapatka, Bioinstitut, Olomouc

Organic farming, an answer to the sustainable agriculture challenge?
Martin Leibl, Head of organic farming section , Ministry of Agriculture Czech Republic

High Natural Value farming: can it survive in modern Europe?
Mandy Gloyer, Head of Land Use Policy, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

How to solve the Sustainable Agriculture Conundrum?
Lettemieke Mulder, Director, External Affairs (Corp. Resp. & NGO Relations), Unilever

Photo: Jiří Sládeček

SESSION 4— AGRICULTURE AND LAND MANAGEMENT: WHAT FUTURE FOR EUROPEAN SPENDING?

Tomáš Zídek, Deputy Minister, Czech Ministry of Finance

Jack Thurston, Co-Founder, Farmsubsidy.org and Transatlantic Fellow, GMF
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Ariel Brunner, EU Agriculture Policy Officer, Birdlife International
Conclusions and Final Remarks