EU organisations elect new secretary general

04/06/2003

Dr Franz Josef Feiter was unanimously elected as the Secretary General of the Committee of Agricultural Organisations in the European Union (COPA) and General Committee for Agricultural Cooperation in the European Union (COGECA) last month.

 

Dr Feiter succeeds Mr Risto Volanen, who has been appointed as Secretary of State for the Finnish government.

 

Feiter, who graduated with a PhD in agronomy from the University of Bonn, previously worked for the German Federal Chancellery and was elected as Secretary of State for the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry in 1993. In 1999 he represented COPA and COGECA at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) meeting in Geneva.