By decision of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, the National Interbranch Organisation for Meat and Livestock (EDOTOKK) was recognised as the representative interbranch organisation for the sheep and goat meat sector.
According to the decision, at the time of its application the organisation represented, through its members, 17.36% of total production (three-year average) and 32.27% of processing (three-year average) in the sector.
Decision No. 901/113813 was signed by Mr. V. Michalopoulos, Head of the General Directorate of Food at the Ministry. On the same day, a separate decision (902/113822) rejected EDOTOKK’s recognition for the beef and pork sectors, because representation in primary production did not meet the 15% minimum threshold set by Article 55 of Law 4647/2019.
EDOTOKK had been founded about a year earlier by SEVEK (industry), SEK (livestock farming), the Hellenic Slaughterhouse Association, and POKK (butchers), a few months after the recognition of its predecessor body, EDOK, had been revoked.
Recognition in sheep and goat meat, the largest category of Greek meat production, was seen as opening a new chapter of cooperation among the sector’s bodies, following a long period of representation disputes among producers, slaughterhouses, traders and processors.