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Formation
  
8 June 1958

Founded
  
8 June 1958

Headquarters
  
Brussels

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Membership
  
26 National Associations in 18 countries

Website
  
http://www.coceral.com/

COCERAL (Acronym for "Comité du Commerce des céréales, aliments du bétail, oléagineux, huile d'olive, huiles et graisses et agrofournitures") is a European association, representing the trade in cereals, rice, feedstuffs, oilseeds, olive oil, oils and fats and agrosupply.

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History

COCERAL was founded in Antwerp, Belgium on 8 June 1958 by a committee representing the cereals and feedstuffs traders called COCERAL - a section of the now dissolved "Union Européenne des Grains". It became an organisation in parallel to the development of the European Community. Its membership has grown from 6 to 9 member countries in 1973, 10 in 1981, 12 in 1985, 15 in 1995 and 25 in 2004. The European association representing agribulk storers, Unistock Europe [2] , became full member of COCERAL in 2004. In 2003 Euromalt [3], representing the European malting industry and Euromaisiers [4], the European Maize milling industry moved their Secretariats to the COCERAL premises to form closer links with other actors in the grain business and related supply chain.

Mission and activity

COCERAL represents the interests of the European trade in grains and oilseeds, feedstuffs, rice, olive oil, oils and fats and agro-supply towards the European Union and international institutions, international bodies and stakeholders.

  • voice the key role of trade across the agricultural supply chain
  • formulate and present common positions to contribute to a workable regulatory framework within the EU
  • monitor and guide EU policy making process in market, food safety and environmental matters impacting trade
  • promote strategies for the supply of safe food ingredients and feed raw materials to the benefit of EU downstream agricultural industries and consumers
  • promote self-regulation and best practices via a risk based Code of Good Trading Practice (Coceral GTP)

    • Structure

    COCERAL is structured around a Presidium and Board which are underlined by several Sections with dedicated missions. The Presidium consists of the Association’s President, Vice-President, one Chairman and one Vice-Chairman for each of the Sections. All Presidium and Board members are elected for a mandate period of two years.

    Sections

  • Markets and Common Agricultural Policy: EU grain markets analysis; preparation of the cereals, and oilseeds crop forecasts; world market for cereals; EU import and export policy examinations and legislation; multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations.
  • Food and Feed Safety and Environment: Specific expertise on the technical requirements to trade, the Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) dossiers, the General traceability regulation, hygiene packages, official controls for food and feed, pesticide residues as well as contaminants and undesirable substances.
  • Rice: Import regime and the effects of multilateral and bilateral agreements
  • Olive Oil: common organisation of the market in olive oil and table olives; the quality strategy and food safety related issues; follow-up on the work of the International Olive Oil Council; traceability, commercial rules (organoleptic characteristics), promotion, consequences for the sector of the EU enlargement.
  • Agrosupply: analysis of markets for fertilisers and plant protection products, examination of regulatory matters (the thematic strategy for a sustainable use of pesticides, maximum limits for pesticide residues, cross-compliance, and cadmium content in phosphate fertilizers)

    • Coceral Members

    COCERAL is a Confederation of National Federations whose Members are the national and European trade organisations representing one or more branches of the cereals, rice, animal feed, oilseeds, olive oil, oils and fats and agrosupply trade of the member countries of the EU or individual companies where a national trade organisation does not exist.It has members in most of the 28 EU member countries.
    Associate Members: National trade organisations of the European countries not forming part of the EU are admitted as associate members of COCERAL. It has associate members in Serbia and Switzerland.
    Affiliated Members: Euromaisiers [5] and Euromalt [6]

    References

    COCERAL Wikipedia
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