THE CUCUMBER CRISIS HAS DETRACTED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE APPROVAL OF THE LAW LAST FRIDAY.

The Council of Ministers approved the draft Law on Shared Ownership in agricultural holdings, a legal initiative undertaken by the Government to promote and favor effective equality between women and men in rural areas, through the legal and economic recognition derived from their participation in agricultural activity.

Today, the 82% of rural women work in the fields as spouses or daughters and, However, In most cases, the 71,2% concretely, the owners of the farm are men.

In this context, Women's work is considered “family help”, so that despite working on the farms they cannot manage them administratively nor do they consolidate any rights when the owners are only their spouses..

The new legal framework that offers shared ownership, in addition to the regulation of administrative effects, will promote positive action, fundamentally giving visibility to women and allowing them to exercise and enjoy all the rights derived from their work..

The regime offered by this Law is applicable to marriages and couples with a similar emotional relationship..

To achieve these objectives, The Law offers three options, the constitution of a limited liability company; the creation of an economic unit, without legal personality, that will be registered in the Shared Ownership Registry and, when neither of the two previous alternatives are possible, the recognition of the economic rights generated by work as compensation for their activity.

As a new, after the public consultation period to which the text of the bill has been submitted, A fundamental change has been introduced, such as that the co-owners of the farms will not be required to be professional farmers..

Priority farms will enjoy preference for obtaining benefits, aid and other promotion measures promoted by public administrations.

In all shared ownership agricultural holdings, subsidies will be distributed to the 50 percent between the two holders. They will also be distributed to 50 percent of the profits from the exploitation between the owners and, since the administration is shared, representation will be supportive, thus recognizing the capacity of both members to compromise the exploitation.

The approved Bill will be submitted to the Cortes Generales, with the desire to be incorporated into the legal system within the current legislature