1. Farmers Parliament Conference
President of Copa Mr Martin Merrild
Riga, Latvia, 11th March 2016

2. Martin Merrild

3. Independence 4th May 1990

4. Peace, cooperation and growth

5. Copa – the farmers voice in EU
Copa represent 23 million farmers in Europe
Copa founded in 1958 – 13 farmer organizations from the 6 original member states
Copa members today: 60 farmer organizations from the EU and 36 partner organizations from Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey

6. Market situation
- Farm liquidity is at a very low level

7. Cereal production
Market situation

8. Copa-Cogeca: List of measures to EU institutions
Full use of remaining market management measures
Better functioning of the food chain
Finding new, profitable export markets
Support cash flow of farmers

9. Implementation and simplification of CAP
- Make it simpler for us farmers

10. Trade Copa in favour of a fair multilateral framework (WTO)
TTIP with the US is very important

11. Climate change
Need to maintain agricultural activity as much as possible
Reduction targets and more flexibility

12. EU citizens happy with financiel support to farmers

13. EU citizens wants good quality and healthy products

14. Thank you