COAG starts encounters between Spanish MEPs and Brussels to address the crisis of the e. Coli bacteria
June 22, 2011
The representative of GOAG will highlight the urgent need to restore the image of the fruit and vegetables Spain, punctuated by the "irresponsible German management of this crisis". In this sense, Góngora would require MEPs that they foster a deep research on the management of the crisis the European Commission, and if necessary, refine responsibilities in this regard. In addition, from the agrarian organization is required claiming responsibility within the Government of Hamburg by the serious allegations on the Spanish sector of fruits and vegetables, have proved unfounded, as well as for having ignored all protocols established by the EU food and health alerts.
Also, since COAG is may require compensation to cover 100% of losses caused and they extended the coverage to more vegetables and fruits of summer, taking into account the widespread collapse of the prices of these productions by the contagion effect. "The situation is especially unfair to Spanish farmers." "After being pointed as cause of the crisis, do not they will be compensated damage in all its magnitude, because of a management system of compensation that encourages those countries that are currently in full campaign of vegetables, the case of Belgium, the Netherlands, or Germany, and not so much to countries such as Spain, that they are in their final phase"pointed the head of the sector in COAG.