The European Parliament approves the new regulation of the POSEI.

WILL ALLOW BANANA PRODUCERS TO RECEIVE MORE THAN 20 MILLIONS OF EUROS IN AID.

Today marks a milestone for the Canarian banana growers who are in luck. The European Parliament has approved the new POSEI regulation in which aid is granted “as compensation for tariff reductions applied to certain imports”.

Like this, The European chamber has highlighted that these rules “will force us to study the impact of EU trade agreements on producers in the outermost regions”.

The congratulations and exchange of communications have not been long in coming. MEP Gabriel Mato (PPE), rapporteur of this document, has shown his satisfaction with the “firm support shown this morning by the plenary session of the European Parliament for the regulation to reform the Program of Specific Options for Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI)”, what, his trial, It constitutes “a boost from the EU to the Canary Islands and specifically, to the agricultural and industrial sectors”.

On the other hand, the president of the Spanish Socialist Delegation in the European Parliament, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, has stressed in another statement that “The text has been the result of a broad institutional consensus, reached between European Commission, European Parliament and Council of the EU.

López Aguilar has highlighted that “The new regulation is good news for the Canary Islands, in a context undermined by serious difficulties” and has specified that “maintains the current program file, which amounts to 653,04 million euros, of those who 268,42 They will be for the Canary Islands, and includes the obligation to carry out an impact study of EU trade agreements with third countries to assess possible unfavorable effects on farmers in the ORs”.

For the president of Asaja-Las Palmas, Roberto Goiriz, What is really notable about the regulation approved today is the approval that has been given to carry out an impact study to determine the effects of agreements with third countries on the productions of the ORs., a matter, said in a statement, “which the Canary fruit and vegetable sector has been requesting for many years”.

Góiriz believes that this study will allow “determine the perverse effects of the EU agricultural agreement with Morocco, What has been causing so much damage to tomato production in the Canary Islands?”.

Like this, The president of Asaja-Las Palmas has considered that by virtue of this impact study “damages caused by uncontrolled exports from Morocco to the EU may be claimed”.

The EP estimates that the new POSEI regulation will come into force next March.