In August 2004 the European Commission presented its report on the simplification of the common market organisation (CMO) in fruit and vegetables (http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/reports/fruitvegsimpl/index_en.htm).

This report aimed preliminary to describe how the Commission simplified the CMO in the years 2002 to 2004, acting on certain areas of shortcomings on the basis of Council requests ; it was also intended to stimulate a debate in the institutions and within the sector by the means of a series of strategic open questions on the future developments of the CMO. With a view to providing a solid background for this debate the Commission has now published a working document presenting an analysis of the principal figures of the sector, of budgetary issues in the recent years and of the implementation of one of the CMO's pillars, the producer organisations (POs) and the related Operational Funds.

The working document is available IN PDF format at http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/reports/fruitvegsimpl/workdoc_en.pdf