AgroaldeaNEW RULES FOR THE EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE CONJURE UP THE CONTROVERSY.
At the expense of the Spanish translation of more than a thousand pages of the reform of the CAP, Ministry, Autonomous communities and agricultural organizations have already expressed their opposition. It comes from? “North coffee for all”?
Although we have seen announcements of opposition to the proposed amendment of the CAP, No one wants to speak out, hiding behind that even more than a thousand pages of the document not have been translated into the Spanish.
The reality is that avoid the answer to the initial question, It is the only thing that can save the Spanish field of a full-scale war between regions and cultures. Something that is intended to prevent from the Ministry of rural, and for which quoted autonomous communities and organizations in the sector with the intention of closing a document of rejection, just five days after being presented the reform by the Commissioner of agriculture, the Romanian Dacian Ciolos.
The new standard fixed subsidies according to the cultivated land and not production. The reform of the CAP is based on a principle: coffee for all.
If the negotiation between the Member States and, for the first time, in the European Parliament he does not remedy it, starting from the 1 in January of 2014 all Spanish farmers would receive the same amount per hectare cultivated that cultivate, where to cultivate it and regardless of the amount or quality of what they produce.
In principle, Canary Islands would continue having the POSEI, but still pending the definition of possible acmbios and criteria to be applied to the financial statement.
The fact is that anyone that supports community entail at least one 5% of total revenues, derived from farming or not, You may receive subsidies.
Is for each country to decide not only how much, but who gets. You need to decide, for example, Yes the vid, almond, fruits and vegetables or the olive groves of new planting, that exceptions you were not receiving aid, they can now count on European funds. In other words, you need to decide how much reduces the ration of a pie to share among more, When, In addition, is smaller.
Since the CE is maintained that the goal is to match all farmers. The new Member States, as Poland, Romania or Bulgaria, they do not have a history of AIDS that serve as a reference for applying the old system, so it is suited to the new reality based only on the amount of land devoted to agriculture.
Even ensures that, with the corrections applied to take into account income differences, There are countries, as Spain, that you receive proportionately more than before.
The proposed change has generated criticism in Spain, Despite being more profitable. But for farmers that is “a utopian approach” It actually “It will result in the abandonment of activity”, they warn the UPA organization.
Roman Santalla responsible for livestock of this organization believes that “not you should escape us is a ultraliberalizadora proposal which should be in the North of Europe and leads Germany”. In contrast to Spain, with its great diversity of agricultural and livestock sectors, “Germany has all its productive structure organized in few crops in many productive hectares, explains. “The same thing happens in the Netherlands: very productive hectares with very little forest or none; all producing as an orchard. Flat per hectare aid does not cause them any problems”.
Or the supposed beneficiaries have it clear. Some crops do not resemble others, and even within each of these there are differences. They have nothing to do the orchards of Northern Spain with greenhouses in Almeria, high-productivity in a small space, that is what you would have to calculate the aid. “There are so many cases that, today, You can not know who hurt and who will benefit”, says national responsible for fruit and vegetables of Asaja, José Ugarrio.
Since COAG expressed that “If we get to choose, We would prefer measures of market, that it provide stability and guarantee the prices of the products. They are preferable to aid and be a market without worthy prices”.
It is here where all agree. Unanimity which have resulted in a document that are intended to deal with the strategy of the divide and rule of Ciolos, before that begin to wreak havoc.