Ms Henrieta Jany-Roskova:

This is a very interesting question and we are trying to understand it. Very often there are more recognised producer organisations in the fruit and vegetable sector because in the past there have been sectoral intervention programmes supported by the CAP and thus financial incentives have been provided to join a producer organisation. This is less so in other sectors, as the Deputy mentioned. At European level, we have some conditions when it comes to recognition. The responsibility for recognition of the producer organisations is at the national level. We are currently reflecting how the role of producer organisations can be further strengthened and how the recognition can be simplified in order to provide more incentives for the co-operation of farmers with producer groups in order to improve farmers' bargaining position in the supply chain.