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Reform of the EU common market organisation for fruit and vegetables

A new Common Market Organisation (CMO) for fruit and vegetables is in place from 1 January 2008. First debate about reform was lunched in 2004 by European Commission and its publication about simplification of the Fruit and Vegetable Common Market Organisation. The last extensive reform in 1996 introduced modifications like a plan for the progressive reduction of support for short-term market intervention and the strengthening of structural aid to improve competitiveness in order to help producers to develop their capacity and to adapt to market demand. The most important reasons for the new reform of CMO for fruit and vegetables are imbalance in the supply and distributions chain, limited influence of the producers’ organisations, coherence with rural development aid and the questions of standards. The objective of this paper is to explore the regulatory framework of the European Common market organisation for fruit and vegetables, reasons and aims of the reform and to compare the Croatian legislation regarding fruit and vegetables sector with the EU CMO for fruit and vegetables. The qualitative research strategy which emphasizes words rather than quantification in the collection and analysis of data and has an inductive approach to the relationship between theory and research is used to make conclusions in this paper. The conclusions about the objectives are made by studying the reference literature related to the topic of the EU Fruit and Vegetables Common market organisation, assumptions derived from the research and professional knowledge related to the topic.

European Union; common market organisation; fruit and vegetables; legislation; Croatia

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