The assembly of Fepex has approved the plan of action for 2012
23 January 2012
According to Fepex, is very important that the European Parliament refuse, the next month of February, the agricultural protocol of the Association agreement with Morocco by the consequences devastadoras that will have for the zones of Spanish production.
The Assembly of Fepex is formed by the presidents of the regional and autonomic Associations and of the Sectorial and Thematic Committees. In Fepex are constituted the sectorial committees by product and three thematic committees: of quality, of labour relations and of commercialisation.
Fepex Considers that the current protocol already is repercutiendo negatively in the sector affecting to the employment and to the feasibility of the exploitations. The sector of the tomato, during the last year, has lost 12.500 employments. According to Fepex, the new protocol will sharpen the problem and would finish with the loss of employment of exploitations and with the disappearance of the sector in numerous producing zones in which it constitutes the main economic activity, given the differences between the wages of the countries.
With the aim to recover the profitability of the exploitations, the Assembly considered prioritaria the reform of the current legislation of management of crisis, so that they articulate effective measures.
Fepex Considers that the new agricultural politics has to allow the supresión of the distortions of the competition that suffers the sector in the current PAC, establishing his full integration in the diet of direct payments and orienting the helps with criteria of maintenance of the productive activity and of the employment.
The Assembly also reviewed the situation of the sector in 2011, marked by the crisis of Escherichia coli and by the imports of Morocco. The crisis of the And coli finished with the positive evolution of the export in the first months. Together with the vegetables, the fruit of bone was one of the most prejudiced sectors. The exports suffered in summer a strong crisis of prices that aggravated with the French aggressions to the Spanish productions of peach and nectarina mainly.
