Harinera LanzaroteñaA Canarian company complained to the Commission that there are companies in the Canary Islands applying for various grants in the REA for the same goods, which violates the rules.

The European Commission will investigate several Canarian companies for violating the cumulation clause the specific arrangements for supplying the Canary Islands (REA), perceiving different aids for the same product, which violates the law and represents unfair competition.

The investigation began after the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament has given green light the processing of a request by the company Harinera Lanzaroteña S.A., based in Lanzarote.

The representative of the company, Agustín Márquez Fernández, It has indicated that the Spanish authorities violate the cumulation clause the specific arrangements for supplying the Canary Islands (REA) and violate the Common Agricultural Policy.

[quote]The source recalls that this practice violates the rules and represents unfair competition.[/quote]

Marquez says his company has tried, vainly, to get listings of beneficiaries of aid granted in the Canary Islands.

According to Marquez says, with complete and disaggregated listings it will prove that certain companies require different aids, as REA, interisland transport subsidies in the Canary Islands and Spain transport between mainland and the Canary Islands for the same goods.

Harinera Lanzaroteña has asked the Committee on Petitions that addresses the European Commission to “request and obtain from the Spanish authorities and disaggregated complete listings of aid granted in the Canary Islands”, for technicians from the European Commission to cross and verify the existence of irregularities denounced.