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The European Commission has in its 2023 Work Program, underlined the need for an accelerated green transformation of the agri-food industry with the aim to build a sustainable and resilient food system.

With targeted initiatives, one focusing on the reduction of food waste, and the other concentrating on the setting up of a comprehensive framework for sustainable food systems in the EU. In January, the Commission published a consultation on the draft guidelines concerning sustainability agreements between actors of the agri-food production ;Finally, the revised Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was published on 1 January 2023.

Századvég has consistently contributed to the development of all of the above policy initiatives at national and at European level. Independently of the above, we conducted a number of sector inquiries with the aim to trying to understand better market mechanisms, one of our recent projects focused on the milk and dairy products sector in Hungary.

Századvég has started its international webinars in 2020 and mainly due to Covid-19 related health restrictions, we limited such occasions to the online environment. Nevertheless, the feedback from a wide range of international participants and speakers was that primary market data and analysis is more than welcome by the legislative actors, especially from the Central Eastern Europe.

Our first, in person, Brussels-based webinar fits well into ongoing policy debates and opens up the discussion regarding the agricultural sector in the CEE. Participants will be presented with the results of a significant quantitative and qualitative Hungarian market study carried out.

Planned panelists:

• Bence Tóth (Policy assistant to the director-general – DG AGRI, European Commission)
• Alexander Anton (Secretary General, European Dairy Association)
• Dávid Kollár (senior researcher, Századvég Konjunktúrakutató Ltd.)

Moderator: Pál Belényesi, Founder and Principle Consultant, Brussels Consulting

If you choose to participate in person, you are welcome to meet our CEO, Kinga Kenyeres at the networking session after the webinar.