Agroaldea
The demands of the EC to the Spanish model implementation of the CAP are illogical.
Recently, Pope Francis visited the headquarters of the EU and called on the institutions not stay away from the reality of the street. His words seem to have fallen on deaf ears, because from the EC itself not only it is becoming increasingly remote, but even argue that whoever turns away is the recipient of the money should be distributed.
The demands imposed on the model of the Spanish PAC verging on absurdity in such a crucial issue as the active farmer, by imposing a concept totally removed from reality and reward who stays on the couch at home 'taking care of' their land to the detriment of those who need and want to work their farms to live them. for Brussels, apparently, It is the same and wants to impose that everyone can collect, breaking the basic concept of what should be agriculture itself: a source of production rather than abandonment.
It is understood that these claims with agricultural organizations have put the outcry and, as in the case of UPA, is reached claim to the Minister of Agriculture, Food and environment, Isabel García Tejerina, that does not comply with European impositions. But the problem should not focus or not to abide by rules, but in convincing the absurdity of this claim.
Absurd to Spain, but not for other countries or bureaucrats who have been demanding that airports and golf courses were also entitled to receive money from the PAC.
After the flat rate that both finished giving unpleasantness, the proposal of the then Minister Miguel Arias Canete broke not only with a system that proved unjust, but wrong. If everyone charges the same, why would bet on expanding crops, innovation, for risking ...
And when the passage is given, difficult because the number of 20% which was approved with the consensus of the CCAA was not to the liking of all agricultural organizations, Now the industry must breakfast with all the work has not helped, because from a sofa, with such an ambiguous approach such as "keep holding", You can be farmer entitled to payment of the CAP without having taken in life or a hoe.
In the background of this decision the interests of many countries hide, especially in Northern Europe, who do not want to lose their privileges continue to charge money for being owners of large or small, the same, Acreage. And for this have caused a kind of 'one size fits all' that all they will achieve is that the door is open to speculation and slow the development of many farms, because what it is to go to lease land if you already have guaranteed payment of the CAP without having to do anything.
Difficult ballot is now opened to Magrama. So you've waited to stay less than a month for final approval of the CAP to make it public and, even, initially it sold as modification "technical aspect".
Brussels with this claim has little leeway, although there are some, and the Ministry must face now is how this requirement is adopted in the allocation of funds, because now there will be more people to collect, but the same money.
And from the Ministry are aware that ignoring this change opens the door to a single lawsuit can end up costing too expensive n only the State, but the farmers themselves and ranchers who do want to work their land.
Perhaps that is why, it is time that the Government, MEPs and even own Miguel Arias Canete, as commissioner of the EC, make a work of awareness to stop this senseless imposition, as it is being done to postpone by one year the application of greening for lack of time to develop materials appropriately. If it is not achieved, only the owner who will benefit from your couch just need to zap, and even to watch a television agricultural, to charge the same one who takes hours working and struggling to push through its exploitation.
Manu Garro / Agroinformacion.com coordinator