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State of the ARC
Next Steps
ARC's consulted common message, the Statement of Principles, was well received at the "CAP post 2013" conference.
The two key ARC ideas, a paradigm shift in agriculture and an economic renaissance of rural areas, figured in the concluding statement.
New work will begin on working the Principles into Policy Recommendations, i.e. the first draft of ARC's Communication from Civil Society to the European Institutions.
By mid-August, we will post an outline of the issues we have to cover, opening a new round of member consultation. See diagram.
We invite all members of the network to:
- Disseminate the Statement of Principles
- Contribute to the working groups
- Read the outline of the draft Communication from mid-August, which will appear on the website and be sent by email to registered members
- Send ideas to us of what you would like to see in the Communication
- Be ready to react to drafts of the Communication as it is developed in September and October
- Tell us about events you are organising in September or October, for us to post on the calendar of events and to invite the organisers to contribute to the ARC message
- Reserve the 4 and 5 November in your diary for the ARC conference in Brussels.
ARC interview with Commissioner Ciolos
Working groups of the ARC process
- Successful rural development case studies
- GMO-free regions, food, seed and agriculture
- Sustainable food production systems
- The future of mountain farming
- Public health and agriculture
- Advisory services and systems
- Rural poverty
- Nordic-Baltic working group - Finnish subgroup
- Nordic-Baltic working group - Polish subgroup
- Nordic-Baltic working group - Lithuanian subgroup
- Nordic-Baltic working group - Estonian subgroup
- Sustainable health and traditional knowledge
- Public goods through agriculture
- European heritage, landscape and people
- Poland - regional working group
- Payments per head of farmer
- Community connected agriculture
- Hungary - regional working group
- Supply management - food sovereignty
- Local food systems
- Portugal - regional working group
- Romania - regional working group
- Trade and development
- ERA rural policy debate
- Italy - regional working group
- Netherlands - regional working group
- Doing Rural - youth policy
- Nordic-Baltic regional working group
- Nordic-Baltic working group - Latvian subgroup
- Nordic-Baltic working group - Swedish subgroup
- Research and development
- LEADER
Organisations supporting the ARC 2020 process
Welcome to ARC 2020
The Agricultural and Rural Convention (ARC) process aims to give civil society a strong voice and to prepare a powerful common message for a new European agricultural and rural policy. The ARC complements and enhances the “Your Ideas Matter” initiative launched by the European Commission on 12 April 2010.
The ARC is an innovative, transparent process, open to all those interested in or engaged for a reform of the CAP. Debate is facilitated by an impartial co-ordinating team. The ARC aims to gather a wide diversity of visions for the future of rural areas. Regional and thematic working groups on this site will construct a common position paper which will be delivered to the European institutions.
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Process - Building the ARC
Timeline
Calendar of events
European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism with Fundatia ADEPT | 07.09.2010 |
Flemish Department of Economy, Science and Innovation in close collaboration with the European Commission | 13.09.2010 |
EUROMONTANA, the European Association for Mountain Areas, together with the Norwegian Mountain Regions Cooperations | 15.09.2010 |
Science for the Carpathians (S4C) initiative | 15.09.2010 |
Friends of the Earth Europe, GENET, Greenpeace, Gen-ethisches Netzwerk e.V. (GeN), IFOAM-EU Group, Save Our Seeds, GLS Treuhand, Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft | 16.09.2010 |
IFOAM and COLABORA | 16.09.2010 |
| 20.09.2010 | |
DG Environment and Joint Research Centre (European Commission | 23.09.2010 |
| 28.09.2010 | |
European Commission - DG AGRI | 28.09.2010 |
| 30.09.2010 | |
European Network for Rural Development | 13.10.2010 |
| 14.10.2010 | |
EEAC - European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils | 14.10.2010 |
AgrarBündnis, Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar, Evangelische Jugend im ländlichen Raum, Dienst auf dem Lande der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck, Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft | 20.10.2010 |
Polish Green Network, Polski Klub Ekologiczny, CFSI, PAH | 16.11.2010 |
Chatham House, London | 06.12.2010 |
Proposals for reform
Spanish Network Rural Development | |
French National Federation of Organic Agriculture | |
For a New European Agriculture and Food policy (CAP researchers) | |
European Coordination Via Campesina | |
Forum Synergies | |
European Food Declaration | |
AGROSTAR | |
IFOAM EU Group | |
Committee of the Regions | |
Agricultural Economics Society conference | |
Europa Nostra, ECOVAST, RED, EAA, EAC | |
ECOVAST | |
Notre Europe | |
UK Food Group Briefing - Securing Future Food | |
EU Food & Agriculture Policy for the 21st Century: alternatives to the CAP | |
A new European Agricultural Policy | |
The CAP after 2013: Brno declaration of NGOs from Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia | |
Coalition of Environment, Nature Conservation, Agriculture, Development, Consumer Protection and Animal Welfare Organisations | |
Committee of the Regions-Commission of Natural Resources | |
French Academy of Agriculture | |
Agronomics Council of the French Ministry of Agriculture | |
Confédération Paysanne | |
European Milk Board | |
French CAP 2013 Group | |
Platform for Food Sovereignty | |
BirdLife / EEB / EFNCP / IFOAM / WWF |
Media
| EurActiv | 26.08.2010 |
| The Guardian | 19.08.2010 |
| Inter Press Service | 10.08.2010 |
| EUobserver | 03.08.2010 |
| EurActiv | 21.07.2010 |
| AgriAvis | 21.07.2010 |
| Coordination Rurale 67 | 20.07.2010 |
| EurActiv | 19.07.2010 |
| Toute l'Europe | 12.07.2010 |
| Euractiv | 07.07.2010 |
| EurActiv | 01.07.2010 |
| Transport & Environment/BirdLife/EEB | 29.06.2010 |
| EurActiv | 16.06.2010 |
| LEI, Wageningen UR, The Hague | 01.06.2010 |
| EurActiv | 21.05.2010 |
| EurActiv | 18.05.2010 |
| Reuters | 18.05.2010 |
| EUobserver | 05.05.2010 |
| Oekolandbau | 27.04.2010 |
| EUobserver | 27.04.2010 |
| EurActiv | 27.04.2010 |
| The Economist | 22.04.2010 |
| EurActiv/Reuters | 30.03.2010 |
| European Commission website | 01.03.2010 |
| Vox | 27.07.2009 |
Links
Links to EU institutions:
- European Commission, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development : "An analysis of the EU organic sector"
- Report commissioned by the European Parliament on the SPS scheme after 2013
- OECD - FAO Agricultural Outlook 2010 - 2019
- European Parliament : motion for resolution on agriculture in areas with natural handicaps
- "Your ideas matter" - reform consultation by the European Commission
- European Commission, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development
- European Parliament : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
- Economic and Social Committee : 'Reform of the CAP in 2013'
Contact
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