{"title":"Farming, hunting and fishing products market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/033-farming-hunting-and-fishing-products","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"033","label":"Farming, hunting and fishing products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 814 supply contracts for farming, hunting and fishing products through award notices on TED; the 464 of them that state a value (57%) add up to €165 million. EU countries together imported €28.5 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to farming, hunting and fishing products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 0302, 0102, 0103, 0105, 0101 and 4 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 6.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 601 companies have won 1,984 public supply contracts for farming, hunting and fishing products in 30 European countries, in 981 award notices from 496 public buyers.","2.6% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 16.6% of all awards across Europe.","30.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":1984,"awardNotices":981,"winningCompanies":601,"publicBuyers":496,"awardsWithValue":1152,"awardedValueEur":353225721,"localAwards":1933,"foreignAwards":51,"top5Share":0.1663306451612903,"singleBidAwards":564,"awardsWithKnownBids":1861,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":28,"awardNotices":25,"awardsWithValue":20,"awardedValueEur":4057497},{"year":2024,"awards":530,"awardNotices":238,"awardsWithValue":294,"awardedValueEur":81655364},{"year":2025,"awards":814,"awardNotices":379,"awardsWithValue":464,"awardedValueEur":164746613},{"year":2026,"awards":612,"awardNotices":339,"awardsWithValue":374,"awardedValueEur":102766247}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"0302","label":"Fish, fresh or chilled (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304)"},{"hs4":"0102","label":"Live bovine animals"},{"hs4":"0103","label":"Live swine"},{"hs4":"0105","label":"Live poultry, \"fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls\""},{"hs4":"0101","label":"Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies"},{"hs4":"0106","label":"Live animals (excl. horses, asses, mules, hinnies, bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, and microorganic cultures etc.)(2002-2500)"},{"hs4":"0301","label":"Live fish"},{"hs4":"0104","label":"Live sheep and goats"},{"hs4":"0508","label":"Coral and similar materials, shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms, cuttle-bone, powder and waste thereof, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked or cut to shape"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":26736451718},{"year":2024,"valueEur":26681058911},{"year":2025,"valueEur":28450549535}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Farming, hunting and fishing products market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/033-farming-hunting-and-fishing-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}