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Appendix A – Overview of Line Ministries & Market Institutions per OIC
Member Country
OIC MC LINE MINISTRY MARKET INSTITUTION CLASSIFICATION(S) FUNCTION(S)
Afghanistan
 Ministry of
Agriculture and
Livestock
 Ministry of
Energy and
Water
 Ministry of
Rural
Rehabilitation
and
Development
 Ministry of
Commerce and
Industry
a) Storage facilities for
pistachios (planned)
a) Licensed public
warehousing
company
a) Exchange &
physical
Albania
 Ministry of
Agriculture,
Food, &
Consumer
Protection
(MAFCP)
 Ministry of
Environment,
Forests, and
Water
Administration
a) Cooperatives a) Cooperatives a) Exchange &
facilitating
Algeria
 Ministry of
Commerce
 Ministry of
Trade
 Ministry of
Agriculture
a) National Office of
Marketing of Wine
Products (ONCV)
a) Marketing Board a) Facilitating
b) Cooperatives b) Cooperatives b) Exchange &
facilitating
Azerbaijan
 Ministry of
Agriculture and
Food (MAF)
a) Agricultural
cooperatives and
cooperative unions
a) Cooperatives a) Exchange &
facilitating
Kingdom of
Bahrain
 Ministry of
Municipal
Affairs and
Agriculture
 Ministry of
Health
 Ministry of
Commerce
Directorate of
Standards and
Metrology
a) General Poultry
Company (B.S.C.)
a) State-owned
economic
enterprise
a) Exchange &
physical
Bangladesh°
 Ministry of
Agriculture
 Ministry of
Fisheries and
Livestock
a) Cooperatives a) Cooperatives a) Exchange &
facilitating
Benin  Ministry of a) National Agricultural a) Commodity a) Facilitating