Green paper consultation on information and promotion for EU agricultural products - CLOSED
Title
Green paper on information and promotion for agricultural products
Policy field
Agriculture
Target groups
All organizations and citizens interested in information and promotion of agricultural products were welcome to contribute to this public consultation. Contributions were particularly sought from Member States, professional organisations, farmers, food producers, non-governmental organizations, processors, retailers, distributors, traders, consumers and government agencies.
Period of consultation
14/07/2011 to 07/10/2011
Objective of the consultation
The current policy for information and promotion for agricultural products has achieved good results but the Commission is convinced that the policy could be simplified and improved to better address the needs of the European and the world markets.
Before proposing regulatory solutions, the Commission wanted to ask stakeholders to give their views.
A revised policy on promotion should help to make the assets of European agriculture better known within the internal and external markets, as well as to bring the taste of Europe across the world.
How to submit your contribution
In order to participate in this consultation, you were invited to read the consultation document ("Green Paper") before filling in the questionnaire.
To answer the online questionnaire we recommended that you first type the answers offline and that you later copy-paste them into the relevant field. After you had completed the questionnaire online, you were invited to press the "Submit" button. The questionnaire would not be submitted until you pressed this button.
You could answer in any official language of the EU.
Received contributions are be published on this website, unless otherwise specified. It was important to read the specific privacy statement 
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attached to this consultation for information on how your personal data and contribution would be dealt with.
In the interests of transparency, organisations had been invited to provide the public with relevant information about themselves by registering in the Transparency Register and subscribing to its Code of Conduct. If the organisation is not registered, the submission is published separately from the registered organisations.
View the consultation document
Green Paper on information and promotion for agricultural products
View the questionnaire
The on-line questionnaire is now disactivated.
Reference documents
Citizens' summary [19 KB] 
Commission Communication on the CAP towards 2020
Commission Communication on agricultural product quality policy
Contact details
Responsible service:
European Commission
Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Unit D.4 - Promotion of agricultural products
E-mail: agri-promotion-green-paper@ec.europa.eu
Postal address: Rue de la Loi 130, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium
Number of responses received to this consultation
173
View the contributions
Consent for publication was given for 155 contributions.
In the interests of transparency, organisations had been invited to provide the public with relevant information about themselves by registering in the Transparency Register and subscribing to its Code of Conduct. If the organisation is not registered, the submission is published separately from the registered organisations.
Results of consultation and next steps
A report summarizing the contributions was presented at the conference "Promotion of European agriculture: a new approach" organised by the Polish Presidency in Warsaw on 29 November 2011.
Read the summary report [291 KB]
The answers received will pave the way for a presentation of concrete option(s) in a Communication in mid-2012 followed by regulatory proposals in the second quarter of 2013.
Specific privacy statement [23 KB]