Fepex calls on the Government that it demands to the Commission if it does not assume 100% of the damage to fruit and vegetables Spain

Fepex raised today that the Government of Spain demande to the European Commission before the Court of Justice of Luxembourg, if it does not assume 100% of the damage caused to all the fruit and vegetable sector, as the so-called "crisis of the cucumber" has been generated by the poor functioning of the system of health alert and poor management of the Commission. Fepex believes that the crisis has been caused by a poor community management, both of the system of health alert, for the slow and insufficient in the implementation of measures of market crisis. Therefore the European Commission must be compensated in the Spanish fruit and vegetable sector for the whole of the damage caused.

Fepex, is manifestly insufficient and ineffective the compensation proposed by the European Commission to compensate for caused damage Spanish of fruit and vegetables sector and restore the normality of the markets, presented yesterday at the Council of Agriculture Ministers special, gathered in Luxembourg.

The Commission's proposal only provides for a minimum complement to the withdrawal for a handful of product price and at a level much lower than the cost of production, which excludes the majority of the sector. In addition, do not value the shortcoming to the entire sector of fruits and vegetables by the collapse of the markets, or the strong deterioration of the image of quality and safety of Spanish products.

Fepex, Spanish exports have not been standardized and consumption remains retracted on the main destination markets. The situation remains critical in the main fruit and vegetable-producing areas and is sharpening for the prohibition of Russia and some countries in the middle of import of a large group of Spanish products, contributing to a greater Community market saturation.