JOINT LETTER: Need for extraordinary measures to support the flower & live plants sector survive the COVID-19 crisis (10 April 2020)

A joint letter signed by 9 European-based organisations representing all segments and sub-sectors of the flower & live plants sector in the EU has been sent on 10 April  2020  to the EU Commissioner for Agriculture. It urges the EU Commission to urgently activate extraordinary and temporary measures to support the sector survive this unprecedented crisis

The signatories to the letter are: UNION FLEURS (International Flower Trade Association), ENA (European Nurserystock Association), ARELFH (Assembly of European Horticultural Regions), VBN (Association of Dutch Flower auctions), VAL’HOR – French inter-branch organisation for ornamental horticulture (growers, nurseries, seeds companies, garden centres, wholesalers, florists, agro-shops, landscape contractors and landscape architects), ANTHOS (Royal Trade Association for Flower Bulbs), CIOPORA (International Association of Breeders of Asexually Reproduced Horticultural Varieties), FLEUROSELECT (International Association of breeders, producers and distributors of propagation material of ornamental plants) and ELCA (European Landscape Contractors Association)