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.
