The head of the Agriculture Area of the European Union questioned the taxes on farmers for the use of the CAP. He spoke before the French press.
“The European Union (EU) should change the conditions imposed on farmers to benefit from the financing of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)”stated the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, In an interview with French newspapers Ebra group.
His comments, which will be published on Saturday, come to light after weeks of angry protests of farmers from all over Europe, who took to the streets to report bureaucracy, environmental regulations and high costs.
“I propose that let’s change our position on some of the cross-compliance rules that tend to limit agricultural production,” he said Wojciechowski in an interview with the group that owns nine newspapers in France, including L’Est Republicain and Le Progres.
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What did he say Wojciechowski on CAP financing
The official specifically referred to the relative standards applicable on the conversion of arable land in permanent pastures; to the prohibition of bare ground during sensitive periods and crop rotation and fallow for which, he said, farmers “they should no longer be obliged to follow to receive CAP funding.
He added that the rules “create a risk for EU food security.” Likewise, he also maintained that I would be in favor of an EU-wide pricing law, similar to the Egalim law of Francedesigned to guarantee fair values to farmers.
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“It will be necessary to include in this law the principle that it is prohibited to pay farmers a price lower than the cost of production,” he stated.
Protests in Europe: countries continue to join the mobilizations
In France, farmers They returned to the streets of Paris on Friday, in a clear warning to the president Emmanuel Macron that he should expect a rocky welcome when he opens a major agricultural exhibition on Saturday.
Several were also added protests in Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Czech Republic.
Source: Ambito
