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Asoprovac Invites to the director attach of the DG Agri of the CE to visit exploitations of beef of Spanish meat

04/07/2012

4 July 2012

After several years of incomes extremely scarce or negative had to, especially, to the high costs of production and the strong crisis of consumption that crosses the EU, and that have had like consequence a drastic descent of the national censuses, from Asoprovac alert to the authorities comunitarias on the grave risk that comports for the Spanish production of beef of meat the new proposal of the Commission for the PAC post 2014.

With said end, the association has organised a series of visits to our country inside the frame of the negotiations of the PAC. The one of Joao Joao Pacheco, general director attach of the General Steering of Agriculture (DG Agri) of the European Commission (CE) is the second of these visits. Like this, it fulfils with the aim prioritario of Asoprovac to move permanently the productive reality to the main actors of the CE and of the European Parliament (PE).

The program of the visit has consisted in the visit of an exploitation of cows nodrizas, ovino of meat and an exploitation of bait, all in the zone of Saragossa. The delegation of Asoprovac has been besides accompanied by Carlos Cabanas, general director of Productions and Agricultural Markets of the MAGRAMA, Esperanza Orellana, general deputy director of Means of Production Graziers of the MAGRAMA and Jesús Nogués, general director of the Agricultural Production of Aragon.

In concrete, Alberto Juanola, president of Asoprovac, has stood out: “Many of the exploitations graziers of our country, of beef of meat but also of ovino and beef of milk, do not have fit in the new proposal of the PAC that presented the Commission in October of the past year. This has been reported reiteradamente by the association, but are safe that only the visit in person can facilitate the understanding of our reality and the assessment of a system that, in spite of his differences with the rest of Europe, has an enormous socioeconomic value no only for our country but for a lot of other European countries”.

According to Juanola, “it would be necessary to recognise and take into account important facts like the special links that joins in our country to the sectors of the cow nodriza and the bait or that the pastures herbáceos do not take advantage of in the phase of bait but they employ cereals like basic element of his feeding”.

Besides, according to the president of Asoprovac, the reform neither takes into account the peculiarities of the diet of property of the earth in the livestock Spanish, with a high percentage of leases and some prices that tend to increase because of the speculation generalised that is causing the Proposal of Reform presented by the Commission.

Asoprovac Already has seen partially recompensados his works in the trip realised to Spain by Luis Capoulas Santos, main speaker of the PAC in the European Parliament, whose effect leaves see through any of the amendments to the proposal of the Commission presented the past week, especially in the referred to the process of convergence.

However, to trial of the organisation, the challenges to face by the new PAC are numerous and this political has to, therefore, be ambitious in his approaches. It is necessary to treat to strengthen the alimentary hygiene and for this give answer in the next PAC to the peculiarity of the diet of property of the earth in the livestock Spanish, the speculative increase of the value of the surface, the peculiarities of the production of beef of Spanish meat or treat to give only support and exclusively to those producers that are really in active.

By all the mentioned, Asoprovac requests the protect and the support of the political parties to national level and of the members of the European Commission -DG Agri and the European members of parliament in the defence of the production of meat of beef Spanish, and therefore European.