CMO & Producer Organisations

Producer organisations are officially recognised bodies, set up by fishery or aquaculture producers, to manage the activity of their members.

Producer organisations can play an important role in the market, improving the conditions for the placing on the market of their members’ fishery and aquaculture products, improving economic returns for their members, stabilising the market, avoiding and reducing as far as possible unwanted catches, contributing to the elimination of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and generally coordinating the activities of their primary producer members.

Regulation 1379/2013 on the Common Organisation of the Market for Fishery and Aquaculture Products (the CMO Regulation) provides an EU legal framework for the recognition of Seafood Producer Organisations.

A group must apply for recognition as a Producer Organisation to the relevant competent national authority.

Further Information can be found:

https://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/cfp/market/producer_organisations_en