Canary request to Brussels a redistribution of POSEI to increase the share of sheep and goat sector.

The proposal will be presented next September to be effective in 2015.

The actions undertaken between the livestock farmers' platform and the Fuerteventura Cabildo to demand a reform of the distribution of European POSEI resources for the benefit of the sheep and goat livestock sector, materialized in an agreement with the Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alonso Brook.

The purpose of this agreement is to introduce a proposal for the redistribution of POSEI funds for the next year of 2015, in order to increase the participation of the sector in European financing.

The President of the Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Mario Cabrera, recalled that in addition to the agreed change for the resources of 2015, “There is a commitment from the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, not only to advance this substantial change, but to progressively recover in several annuities what is owed from previous annuities of the additional POSEI. We trust that this will be the case and we also trust that the State will do the same and recognize this debt by contributing its 50%.".

On the other hand, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Council of Fuerteventura, Rita Díaz, explained that “the work on the POSEI reform was undertaken a long time ago, always in a coordinated manner. We act at the European level, which is still pending for a more in-depth reform of the new Parliament. But also at the local level, with redistribution within the current structure, which is what has now been achieved for 2015”.

A representation of the Fuerteventura Livestock Farmers Platform was present at the meeting in which the agreement was reached., the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alonso Brook; the director of the Canarian Institute of Agri-Food Quality, Alfonso López and the General Director of Livestock, Juan Pedro Dávila.

The claim of the Ranchers seeks to reform it to 2015 and within the current POSEI the Measure 3.3. to support the goat and sheep sector, going from the current 6.4 million euros to 7.2 million in 2015.

As well, within the 'Measure 3.6 of aid to the producer for the consumption of dairy products made with goat and sheep milk of local origin', includes point '3.6.1 Aid to the dairy industry' with an item of 1.8 million euros (46 EUR per tonne). And in point '3.6.2 Aid to the dairy producer' a total of 4.7 million euros of community financing and the rest up to 5.7 million euros of additional financing (to 144 EUR per tonne).

The POSEI regime establishes specific measures in favor of the agricultural sector of the Outermost Regions of the European Union, on the basis of the obligations established in article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the Union itself.

POSEI has special measures to guarantee the supply of essential products and to support local agricultural production in the Canary Islands, Azores, Madeira and the French overseas departments of meeting, Guadalupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Mayotte. The annual budget currently allocated to POSEI programs in the EU amounts to 653 million euros.

The European Union began in November 2013, a process of in-depth reform of POSEI, for which a public consultation was carried out in which the Canary Islands were from the RUP regions that participated with a 90% of the contributions. Although a draft modification was prepared, This has not been able to be applied until a prior study is carried out that the new commissioner will have to undertake..