EUROPEAN LIVESTOCK AND

MEAT TRADES UNION UECBV

Meat Trade Sector

COCERAL AGM

Jean-Luc Mériaux Secretary General

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What is the UECBV?

Global/EU meat market:

Meat industry

Single Market and EU integration. Case studies

• Meat labelling

• Social issues

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UECBV Network

What is the UECBV?

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Farmer

Livestock Trader Livestock Market

Slaughterhouse

Deboning and cutting plant

Meat preparation plant Importer

Exporter

Supermarket Catering

Retail Sale

Butcher

Processing Plant

What is the UECBV?

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Today, UECBV represents 52 associations out of: • 24 EU Member States as well as certain EFTA

countries and EU candidate countries (Turkey). • Other countries, EU trade partners in the meat

sector, are also associated to the UECBV (Japan, Russia)

3 European Associations Livestock markets (AEMB) Casings industry (ENSCA) Ship suppliers (OCEAN) In total, some 20,000 firms of all sizes and over 230,000 jobs are represented within the UECBV through its national member federations.

What is the UECBV?

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UECBV Network

The global/EU meat market

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World meat

market at a

glance

Global meat market

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EU meat market

Source: DG AGRI

Pig 22.858 22.596 21.416 22.133 22.437 21.990 21.997 22.335 22.430

Poultry 11.838 12.123 12.535 12.945 13.205 13.474 13.718 14.077 14.367

Beef 8.203 8.082 7.720 7.918 7.847 7.531 7.268 7.285 7.350

Sheep 1.024 949 748 717 730 706 713 705 710

Goat 72 78 60 59 59 54 47 46 44

Horse 56 71 75 74 77 83 76 76 76

Total 44.051 43.900 42.554 43.847 44.356 43.847 44.356 43.838 43.819

Change prev. Year 6,4% -0,3% -3,1% 3,0% 1,2% -1,1% 1,2% -1,2% 0,0%

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Market price

evolution

Monthly evolution of the market price for different meats

Source: DG AGRI

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The EU fortress… a false idea !!!

The European Union is the world's largest

importer of agricultural and fishery products

and the largest exporter with the USA.

Trade

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Pig products exports

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Pig products imports

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EU beef main exporters

* Excluding live animals (0102), fats, preparations of several types of meat (0209, 0210 99 and 1602 90)

Source: DG AGRI

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EU beef main importers

* Excluding live animals (0102), fats, preparations of several types of meat (0209, 0210 99 and 1602 90)

Source: DG AGRI

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EU meat

Mid-term outlook

Change in total EU meat production and consumption 2024 compared to 2014

Source: DG AGRI

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EU meat Mid-term outlook

Consumption

A slowly declining EU meat consumption per capita

Source: DG AGRI

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EU meat trade & industry

Challenges

MEAT

MARKET GLOBALISATION

ENVIRONMENT

OTHER CIVIL SOCIETY

EXPECTATIONS

SECURITY OF SUPPLY

TRADE

ECONOMIC CRISIS

Consumption

INFORMATION TO CONSUMERS

Origin labelling

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UECBV tackles topics of

interest for its members

Single Market and EU integration

Case studies

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EU integration

Single Market

Monetary Union

Common Agricultural Policy

Common Veterinary Legislation/Food safety policy

Key words

Transparency

Visibility

Trust

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Single market Live piglet movement

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Single market Cattle movement

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5 M° cattle cross a border in the EU every year (7% of the EU herd)

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EU diversity

Natural resources

Cost of living

Structures (farms, industry)

Taxes

Wages/ Labor costs

National measures related to food safety

Environment

Bio-energy

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Price diversity

Sow prices in certain MSs

2011 - 2015

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EU integration Challenges

Low confidence levels

Economic crisis

Nationalism growth

New generations

Subsidiarity (GMOs issue/Official controls)

Food patriotism

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Food patriotism Study case

‘Livestock farmers of FNSEA and Young Farmers will denounce on social networks supermarkets selling foreign meat’, Ouest-France.fr, Alex Gallardo, 26th September

‘Manuel Valls calls for ‘food patriotism’, Liberation.fr, 20th October

‘Eating French, a solution to save agriculture?’, BFMTV, Maxime Ricard and Gwenaël Windrestin, 5th November

“Consumers link origin information to various product aspects, such as quality, safety, environmental concerns and also declare that they would buy national products to support the economy of their country…. Unlike origin labelling at EU level, origin labelling at country level would have an important impact on the internal market, with a possible increase of consumption of local foods for certain markets.” (REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL

regarding the mandatory indication of the country of origin or place of provenance for

unprocessed foods, 20th May 2015)

“The extension of a mandatory origin label for products such as unprocessed & single-ingredient foods to country level (e.g. Made in Italy) would lead to higher production costs, a hike in food prices & increased domestic sales as a result of food nationalism”

(AGRAFACTS n° 31-15)

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Food patriotism MEAT LABELLING

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Pre-packed fresh pork, sheep meat,

poultry meat

Reg. (EU) N° 1337/2013

•When meat comes from animals born, reared and slaughtered in one single Member State or Third Country, the label could display as “origin” the name of the country. IF NOT, the label shall contain the following indications:

•(a) "Reared in: the Member State or Third Country”

•(b) “Slaughtered in: the Member State or Third Country" and

•(c) The batch code identifying the meat supplied to the consumer or mass caterer.

Fresh or frozen beef, either

carcasses, de-boned meat, cut meat or minced

meat

Reg. (EC) N° 1760/2000

•Operators are required to label beef with the following information:

•the reference number or code of the animal or group of animals from which the beef was derived;

•the country of the slaughterhouse and approval number. The indication should read:- 'Slaughtered in (name of country) (approval number)„;

•the country of the cutting hall and approval number. The indication should read:- 'Cutting in (name of country) (approval number)„;

•Origin of the beef.

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Study case Social issues

The impact of the social issue on competitiveness in the EU meat sector

Posted workers

National studies show extreme differences in labour costs. The total hourly cost for an employer may vary from €27 in one MS to €10 in another.

Impact

The meat sector, and, more especially, the pork sector, are a segment of intensive labour.

Labour is the first expense of a company operating in this sector, except for the cost of raw material. Labour represents up to 82% of the net added value.

Therefore, the labour cost has a direct impact on the competitiveness.

An asymmetric evolution of the pig meat sector among Member States is noticed

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EU integration To-do list

Stimulate EU's competitiveness by improving the Internal Market

common energy policy

common VAT policy

harmonized economy and budgetary policy

further rules simplification towards single legal standards

common trade policy (import/export)

common social policy

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European construction

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• Denmark - 10th century

• Sweden - 12th century

• Portugal - 868

• Spain – 15th century

• Netherlands - 26 July 1581

• United Kingdom - 1 May 1707

• France - 10th-14th century

• Luxembourg - 9 June 1815

• Greece - 25 March 1821

• Belgium - 4 October 1830

• Italy - 17 March 1861

• Romania - 14 March 1881

• Finland - 6 December 1917

• Ireland - 8 December 1922

• Germany - end 19th century

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