THE NON-LAW PROPOSITION WILL BE DEBATED THIS DAY 26 JUNE IN THE PLENARY OF THE CHAMBER.

The claims of the entities of tomato producers and exporters of the Canary Islands, FedEx and balsamic, have been subscribed by all the parliamentary groups that have presented them as Proposition No of Law on the “support for the Canary Islands export tomato sector and improvement of the functioning of POSEI”.

Exporting associations have been demanding compliance with the commitments made by the administrations, reflected in the Tomato Strategic Plan and in the Decrees that regulate transportation compensation.

However, Fedex and Aceto's requests have been more like a song in the desert based on the results. To this unsustainable situation, Added to this is the constant non-compliance with the annual quotas assigned to Morocco in the agreement with the EU.

The implementation of tomato cultivation in the Canary Islands exceeds 125 years of history. During this time, The export tomato has led to the configuration of the island territory, interisland mobility, the generation of wealth and the development of export activity on the European continent.

Currently, and despite the adversities, the activity generates some 12.000 Job positions. In addition, per salary unit, It is the one that absorbs the most labor among all agricultural sectors and in which the predominant profile is that of women., greater than 40 years, with little training, in a high percentage, provides the only income in your family unit, as activity in the services and construction sectors was drastically paralyzed, mostly men.

Exporting entities consider that this conditioning and differentiating fact of this crop, has not been taken into account when distributing European aid.

Faced with the bleak outlook and the uncertainty of its future, The employers' associations demand that the regional deputies demand that the central and regional governments pay the aid that is still pending., that regulates the Action 1.5 from the POSEI community program and those from the Strategic Tomato Plan for the Canary Islands.

Due to the impossibility of both governments derived from the crisis, The exporting entities propose that these quantities be prorated in the period 2014-2020. In such a way that these deadlines are instrumentalized in a way that allows the sector to anticipate and finance these amounts..

They also request the State to compensate for the condition of remoteness and insularity by complying with the compensation of the maritime and air transport of goods included for the Canary Islands in the Consultative Treaty of the European Community and in the Royal Decree of 11 March of 2011.

Regarding non-compliance by third countries, FedEx and balsamic, They call on the Government of the Canary and Central Islands to demand that the European Commission carry out an impact study of the effects of agreements with third countries, and economically compensate for the adverse effects they have caused in the tomato export sector of the Archipelago.

Similarly, They propose that the quantities to be imported and their annual increases, of these third countries, are distributed among the twelve months of the year, since now they are distributed only from October to May, coinciding with the export dates of the Canary Islands.

Thus, are distributed among all producing countries in the EU (Holland, France, England, etc.) the percentages and so on, in solidarity, everyone assumes their losses and in turn the compensations.

With this initiative, FedEx and balsamic, They hope that we will move from the declaration of intentions to actions since, if not so, activity is in danger, jobs and contribution to the economy of the Archipelago.