Faeca regrets the new rejection from Brussels to activate aid for the private storage of olive oil

Despite the many declarations of the Minister of environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, environment Rosa Aguilar, trusting in the adoption of the measure by Brussels, and in spite of the commitment of the Commissioner of agriculture this weekDacian Ciolos, to study, the Committee of management of the European Union returned to reject yesterday, claiming that the prices of oil are above the levels of reference that makes Community regulation.

In view of the Federation, this outcome demonstrates the lack of political clout of Spain to Brussels because, being the main producer of the European Union country, has failed for the olive oil sector aid insistently demands, stretching and the agony of the growers despite all the efforts. Nothing seems to have served, so far, the Union of all the representative organisations of the sector, the collection of more than 50,000 companies - only by the credit - or the mass demonstrations of Jaén (March 18) and Córdoba (April 1) that brought together, in both cases, more than 10,000 people. Today, the sector has a new appointment in Toledo. All this reminder to the Ministry of environment and Rural Environment and marine (MARM), the main producing regions and to the Executive that must continue to work in Brussels, that the industry needs urgent, short-termthat "aspirin" which refers the Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos to achieve recovery in prices.

Later, in the medium and long term, it should work in structural measures through, inter alia, the integration of the supply and the recovery of the market, according to Faeca mechanisms. But, at the moment, and in the absence of an update of the reference prices marking Regulation (EC) 1234 / 2007 for the activation of the private storage of oil, the olive oil sector requires activation of the mechanism for "serious disturbance of the market"been clearly reflected. Five years after loss continued income, prices that are at levels lower in the last decade and reference values in the Community regulations which were fixed long since fourteen campaigns, exemplify what the economic situation in which we find ourselves.

It should be recalled here that it was the current director-general for agriculture of the European Union, José Manuel Silva, who in 1998, to exercise in the same Office, gave the green light to the values of reference contained in Regulation (EC) 1234 / 2007Despite the reluctance of the sector which, back then, called them "of ruin". José Manuel Silva argued at that time that, to avoid reaching a ruinous situation - as the current-, also was picked up the case of "serious market disturbances", paradoxically now obviated in all negotiations in the European institutions.

As a result, Faeca stressed that, while his position so far has been backing and support of the MARM, in the light of the results, calls for that to be the highest political levels of the main producing regions and the central Government which take the initiative and do the weight of the production of olive oil sector Spanish in Europe.