Our Ministry's EU Twinning Project entitled `Improving the Institutional Capacity Building for Fishery Producer Organisations' aims at introducing EU's Common Market Organization (CMO) in Turkey in accordance with the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). These policies focus on having an ecologically, economically and socially more sustainable fisheries and aquaculture sector. In our project we focus especially on improving the institutional and legal framework in Turkey in line with the CMO. In that respect Turkish Producer Organisations play a key role its implementation process. Together with Producer Organisations, we aim to find the most suitable and effective tools and mechanisms to organise the market in Turkey.
Component 3 focuses especially on enhancing capacity of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock and of producer organizations. In order to reach this objective we organise workshops, trainings, study visits to Member States, awareness raising campaigns for stakeholders in line with EU's Common Market Organisation.