EU Court cancels it by including the territories of Western Sahara illegally.
The Coordinator of organizations of farmers and ranchers (COAG) the Community authorities requires the immediate implementation of the ruling nullifies the agreement of free agricultural trade of the EU and Morocco, to include illegally to Western Sahara, territories on which the UN does not recognize the alawite country's sovereignty.
The judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU, posted yesterday, picks up literally that "..." the Decision of the Council, of 8 March of 2012, concerning the conclusion of the agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco concerning reciprocal measures of liberalization of trade in agricultural products, processed agricultural products, fish and fishery products, replacement of the protocols we 1, 2 and 3 and the annexes of these protocols, and modification of the Euro-Mediterranean agreement whereby establishing an association between the European communities and their Member States, on the one hand, and the Kingdom of Morocco, on the other hand, It is cancelled, It includes the application of that agreement to the Western Sahara."
COAG already reported in November of 2010 This situation on the basis of a letter, dated at 2004, in which the then Secretary of State of trade of the Government of the House white, Robert Zoellick, He was a member of the House of representatives United States that trade liberalization between the US and Morocco agreement were not included the territories of Western Sahara because its sovereignty over them is not recognized.
As detailed in the letter "the United States and many other countries do not recognize the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara". This stance was that adopted by other countries such as Switzerland and Norway.
In addition, COAG complained in November of 2012 agricultural free trade EU-Morocco agreement violated, at the same time, the European legislation on the marketing of fruit and vegetables to limit the ability of consumers to discern clearly whether a product labeled as originating in Morocco comes from this Kingdom, either comes from the Western.
Of fruit and vegetables European legislation establishes that the products to be sold fresh to the consumer only be marketed if the indication of the country of origin is contained in them. On this issue, slope there is a judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU to a lawsuit brought by the Polisario Front. Effect of the free trade EU-Morocco in sector fruit and vegetables Spain COAG rejected the terms of the approved agreement because it was seriously damaging the economy of the producing areas of fruit and vegetable.
The fruit and vegetables sector generates half of the agricultural employment in Spain, more than one-third of the final agrarian production and have an important weight in the balance of trade, (the last campaign, the value of export rose to the 10.500 million euros). In these times of crisis and unemployment, particularly serious problems in many areas of production and vegetables, the renewal of the agreement meant a hard blow to the economy and employment. Only the increase in the quota of tomato was a loss of 350.000 annual wages in Spain.
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