PC060171This call has loans worth 4,9 million, which will be increased up to 3 million over budget appropriations 2015.

The Department of agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Water has called for additional support to different measures Community Program to Support Agricultural production in the Canary Islands (POSEI) to which the government allocated to 7,9 million euros of equity.

The present call has loans worth 4,9 million euros which will be increased in the first months of the year with three million more from the Autonomous Community, already on budgets 2015.

With this amount and would 33 million euros those for aid in addition to those already receiving EU farmers and ranchers Canary Islands, in this case from own funds of the Autonomous Community and the transfer of amounts of specific supply arrangements (REA), the canary government has put in the hands of the agricultural sector of the Archipelago.

The recent publication in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands opens the call for aid per hectare for the continued cultivation of vines for the production of wines with Protected Designation of Origin (DOP).

As well, the producer of goat and sheep milk, local marketing of fruit and vegetables, processing and bottling of wines with DOP Canary, production of broilers in the Archipelago, and local production of chicken eggs, campaigns aimed at 2009, 2010 and 2012; and, on the other hand, the funds for tomato growers export, This last line on the campaign 2013.

The deadline for submitting applications will remain open until 27 January. These can be formalized way online through the electronic headquarters of the Ministry or in person at any of the offices of registration of the Canary Islands, as well as other records regulated by law.

From the year 2009, It was approved by the European Union to provide additional funds POSEI Community funding since the European credits were insufficient to cover the desirable level of support for sub tomato, fruits and vegetables for the local market, the wine and livestock.

These additional funds were notified to the European Commission as State aid, i.e., non-Community, who proceeded to approve.

However, in the years in which there have been serious budgetary constraints, It has not been able to fully comply with the provision of additional funding contained in the POSEI due to the economic crisis that has suffered and suffers Spain.

For all these reasons, it is considered necessary to call these supplementary aid additional to those already paid, the amounts remaining to be paid up to the maximum amounts authorized by Europe unit.

In addition, aware of the need for institutional support, the Canary Islands Government, despite budgetary constraints and stringent state standards regarding the deficit, He has refereed measures that have to provide additional aid to agriculture and livestock sub-sectors in the amount of 33 million euros in recent years.

Under no circumstances could speak of government debt with the primary sector, since such aid never included in institutional budgets cut in recent years.

While it is true that the Canarian Government has recognized that there was a commitment to support agriculture and livestock that could not be met exactly as planned, before reducing income and no growth debt, to comply with the demands of deficit control by the State.

Already in mid-December the regional Department issued the decision to grant additional aid to POSEI additional funds for tomato export Archipelago, which represented 4.070.691,30 euros for this production subsector.

This amount represents the maximum amount that can be paid to producers on the basis of the hectares that Europe supports that can be subsidized.

With this subscription, Councilor Area, Juan Ramon Hernandez, fulfilled the commitment of the regional government last summer with the sector, in the sense of the funds to pay additional aid, signal support in this crop. This action allowed the beginning of the harvest of tomatoes this season, that depended on this performance.