Producer organisations and their associations can play useful roles in concentrating supply, in improving the marketing, planning and adjusting of production to demand, optimising production costs and stabilising producer prices, carrying out research, promoting best practices and providing technical assistance, managing by-products and risk management tools available to their members, thereby contributing to strengthening the position of producers in the food chain. This regulatory framework is of essential importance to agri-cooperatives in the EU, which make up a large percentage of these organisations, and which play a key role in upskilling and reskilling in the agri-food sector. This text has been revised under the implementation of the new CAP.