REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Negotiating Group 11 - Agriculture and Rural Development. Bilateral Screening PIGMEAT

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1 REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Negotiating Group 11 - Agriculture and Rural Development Bilateral Screening PIGMEAT Brussels May 2014

2 CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION Legal background Overview of pigmeat sector Markets Slaughterhouses Animal identification and diseases control Trade Subsidies Comparison with CMO measures Future steps

3 LEGAL BACKGROUND Law on Agriculture and Rural Development (OG RS No 41/09, 10/13) Law on Subsidies in Agriculture and Rural Development (OG RS No 10/13) Law on Veterinary Medicine (OG RS No 91/05, 30/10) Law on Animal Husbandry (OG RS No 41/09, 93/12) Food Safety Law(OG RS No 41/09) * Rulebooks, Regulations based on these laws

4 OVERVIEW OF THE SECTOR Decreasing number of animals in last 5 years Number of animals in 2013: pigs: breeding sows: Meat production: tons Self-sufficiency in production 97%-99%

5 Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia NUMBER OF PIGS (000)

6 MEAT PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION (000 TONS) Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

7 Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia SHARE OF PIGMEAT IN MEAT PRODUCTION 2013

8 OVERVIEW OF THE SECTOR 355 thousand farms with pigs (56% of holdings) Average 9.8 pigs 99.94% family holdings average 7.7 pigs (80.07% of pigs) 0.05% legal entity average 3.586,4 pigs (19.9% of pigs) Less than 0.01 are entrepreneurs average 42 pigs (0.04% of pigs)

9 HOLDINGS WITH PIGS (000) Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia - Agricultural census data 2012

10 MARKET Live markets; Direct purchase from farmers; Price based on live weight; Paying per kg of live weight; There is no carcasses classification system; Allowed slaughtering on the farm; 55.1% were slaughtered on the farm; Trade under control of official veterinarians.

11 MARKET Price reporting is voluntary Collection of data by Agriculture Market Information System of Serbia (STIPS) and Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia - STIPS weekly - Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia monthly There is no market interventions system There are no measures of market support

12 SLAUGTERHOUSES 394 slaughterhouses (of which 111 with capacity 200 pigs/week) EU EXPORT FACILITIES: - 7 facilities are registered for export of pigmeat products - 6 facilities registered for slaughtering of animals for pigmeat, intended solely for the manufacture of meat products on own territory

13 ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION AND DISEASES CONTROL Ear tags for individual animals identification Computerised databases Individual registers are kept on each holding Program of eradication of infectious diseases: - Classical swine fiver - Trichinosis

14 ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION AND DISEASES CONTROL

15 TRADE Main export destinations: - CEFTA countries (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia pigmeat; Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia live animals) - Other countries (Russia pigmeat).

16 TRADE Import by origin: - CEFTA countries (Montenegro, FYR of Macedonia pigmeat and live animals) - EU countries (live animals and pigmeat) - Other countries (Russia pigmeat, Russia, Norway live animals)

17 EXPORT AND IMPORT Import Live animals (in head) Meat (t) Export Live animals (in head) Meat (t) Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

18 PIGMEAT EXPORT AND IMPORT 2013 IMPORT Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia EXPORT

19 IMPORT REGIME FOR LIVE ANIMALS AND PIGMEAT EU countries SAA is implemented: tariff rates for live animals are % and for pigmeat are 0-15% CEFTA members: import of live animals and pigmeat - full liberalisation EFTA members: tariff rates are reduced just for some tariff lines Free Trade Agreement with Russia, Belorussia and Kazakhstan - full liberalisation

20 SUBSIDIES - Subsidies for pure-bred breeding animals (5.000 RSD/head 43,3 ); - Fattening of pigs (1.000RSD 8,7 ); - Subsidies for enforcing breeding objectives in livestock through creation and enforcement of breeding programs

21 COMPARISON OF MARKET ORGANISATIONS EUROPEAN UNION Private storage aid Import/export licenses Tariff quotas Export refunds Exceptional measures Price monitoring Carcasses classification SERBIA NO NO NO NO NO NOT LIKE IN EU NO

22 FUTURE STEPS - Adoption of new legislation - Increasing of institutional capacity - Implementation of new legislation - Collection of statistical data in line with EU - Establishment of carcasses classification - Mandatory price reporting

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24 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION