Media advisory – Agriculture and Fisheries Council of 26 and 27 May 2021

Indicative programme

Wednesday 26 May 2021

Place:
Europa building, Brussels

Chairs:
Ricardo Serrão Santos
, Minister for Maritime Affairs of Portugal, Maria do Céu Antunes Minister for Agriculture of Portugal and Rui Martinho Secretary of State for Agriculture and Rural Development

All times are approximate and subject to change

from 08.00
Arrivals (live streaming)

10.00
Beginning of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council
Adoption of the agenda
Approval of non-legislative list A items

10.10 Approval of A items (public session)

Post 2020 CAP reform package: (public session)

a) Regulation on CAP Strategic Plans 

b) Regulation on financing, management and monitoring of the CAP 

c) Regulation on common market organisation (CMO) of agricultural products 

+/- 15.30
Press conference (maritime affairs) in
live streaming 

+/- 15.40
Plenary session 
(public session)

– Study on the Union’s options to update the existing legislation on the production and marketing of plant reproductive material

– Study on the status of new genomic techniques

– Conclusions on the EU’s priorities for the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)

Any other business:

  • Bilateral EU-UK consultations for fishing opportunities for 2021 and, for deep-sea stocks, for 2021 and 2022
  • Current situation in WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies

+/- 19.35
CAP debriefing (
public session)

Thursday 27 May 2021

from 08.00
Arrivals (live streaming)

10.00
Plenary session 

Post 2020 CAP reform package: (public session)

a) Regulation on CAP Strategic Plans 

b) Regulation on financing, management and monitoring of the CAP 

c) Regulation on common market organisation (CMO) of agricultural products 

14.00
Plenary session 

Organic farming – action plan for the development of EU organic production

Any other business:

  • Joint Declaration of the Ministers of Agriculture of the Visegrad Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania on the opportunities and challenges for farmers stemming from the Farm to Fork strategy
  • Need to support agricultural sectors affected by recent frost events (public session)

+/- 16.30
Press conference (agriculture)
live streaming

16.35
(Tbc) Plenary session (public session)

Arrangements for the press conferences

Please note that there will be no physical press conference. In order to participate and ask questions, EU accredited journalists should register using this link.

Journalists who already registered for previous Agriculture and Fisheries Council press conferences do not need to register again.

Deadline for registration: Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 14.30

Further instructions will be sent to all registered participants approximately half an hour after the deadline.

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