| CCP:CI 98/1 July 1998  |
| CCP:CI 98/1 July 1998 |
COMMITTEE ON COMMODITY PROBLEMS |
INTERGOVERNMENTAL GROUP ON CITRUS FRUIT |
Twelfth Session |
Valencia, Spain, 22-25 September 1998 |
PROVISIONAL AGENDA |
I. ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS
II. ECONOMIC AND TRADE ISSUES
III. INTERGOVERNMENTAL ACTION ON CITRUS
IV. OTHER MATTERS
1. The Twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Group on Citrus Fruit will open at the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Valencia on Tuesday, 22 September 1998 at 0930 hours. The Group is expected to adopt its report in the afternoon of Friday, 25 September 1998.
2. At each session, the Group elects a Chairperson and two Vice-Chairpersons. At its Eleventh Session in 1996, Mr A. Guedira (Morocco) was elected as Chairperson, and Mr H. Streichert (Germany) and Mr W. Guinovart (Uruguay) as Vice-Chairpersons.
3. The economic agenda of the Group deals with major market and policy issues and is designed to improve transparency in the world citrus economy. This section of the Agenda is composed of three major sub-sections covering topics of ongoing interest to the Group.
4. The Group will assess conditions in the global citrus economy in 1996/97 and 1997/98. The latest data available to the Secretariat will be tabled at the Session (CCP: CI 98/CRS.1). Members are requested to provide information regarding citrus market developments in their countries, particularly with regard to the 1997/98 season.
5. At its last meeting the Group emphasized the importance of monitoring the market situation and outlook for citrus fruit and products in emerging markets. The Group will have the opportunity, aided by documents CCP: CI 98/2, CCP: CI 98/3 and CCP: CI 98/4, to assess the market situation and prospects for citrus fruit in Poland and the Russian Federation; for clementines in the United States; and for organic produce, respectively.
6. As part of its functions of evaluating the longer term market outlook, the Group will assess the prospects for supply and demand of fresh and processed citrus fruit to the year 2005 in the light of economic and trade policy developments. To assist the Group in this review, the Secretariat will provide a new projections study outlining prospects for production, consumption and trade (CCP: CI 98/5).
7. The Group will review recent policy developments affecting the world market for fresh citrus fruit and citrus products with the assistance of background document CCP: CI 98/6. In addition, aided by document CCP: CI 98/7, the Group will have the opportunity to review the implications of major sanitary and phytosanitary regulations for trade of citrus fruit and products.
8. Document CCP: CI 98/8 will describe the status of both operational and proposed projects submitted to the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC). The Group is invited to comment on these projects and on any further proposals. Members of the Group are reminded that if new project proposals are to be considered, they should be submitted to the Secretariat at least three months prior to the Session.
9. The Group will have the opportunity to review and discuss the demand enhancing activities carried out, and/or proposed, by its members and observers, since its Eleventh Session.
10. As part of this discussion presentations linking citrus promotion, diet and health will be made by representatives of the FAO and by other speakers with experience in promotional activities based on dietary and health benefits.
11. The Group may wish to consider what follow-up activities may be pursued to encourage consumption of citrus and citrus products.
12. Other international organizations working in the field of citrus, such as the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO, the Liaison Committee of Mediterranean Citrus Fruit Culture (CLAM) and the InterAmerican Citrus Network (IACNET) may wish to inform the Group about their activities and programmes.
13. The Sixty-first Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP), in February 1997, made proposals to streamline the operating of its intergovernmental commodity groups and proposed to review the mandate and structure of the groups at its next session in January 1999. The CCP conclusions are outlined in document CCP: CI 98/9.