The elimination of the rights of plantation would finish with the model of production of current European wine, according to the sector
26 January 2012
The representative organisations of the producing sector of wine in Spain,
In the writing, the signatories ensure that the viticultores Spanish defend that the system of rights of plantation has allowed the forming of a system of production vitivinícola pointer in the world, whose products reach very high heights of quality. In his opinion, the supresión of the same would finish with the model of production of European wine such and knows nowadays.
This system, according to the agricultural entities, has supposed a key factor in the fixation of the rural population, in the balance between offer and demand of wine and in the optimisation of the productive conditions of the traditional zones of crop, especially in the regions of more difficult crop and in the protected by indications of quality.
The elimination of the system of rights would have, to trial of the organisations signatories, “consequences nefastas and irremediables”. In this sense, complain that it would produce an immediate descent in the prices of the grapes and the wines, what joined to the increase of the costs of production that bear the agriculturalists, would do peligrar to the exploitations vitivinícolas Spanish. “The diet of rights of plantation has showed his efficiency in productive and qualitative terms in front of the strong competition of the wines of third countries and more still, represents a measure without financial cost for the EU”, warn in the letter to the Ministry.
The sector asks to Arias Cañete that show a positioning “rotundo and unambiguous in favour of the continuity of the current diet of rights of plantation for all the viñedo further of the year 2015” in the frame of the legislative proposal of the OCM included in the review of the Common Agricultural Politics, whose debate is in full development.
