COAG requires the Executive his opposition to the liberalisation of vineyard plantations

The Coordinator of organizations of farmers and cattlemen (COAG) has called the Spanish Government, through the Minister Rosa Aguilar, to give a ruling against the liberalisation of the plantations of vineyards more than the year 2015, as did the French and German Governments. The measure, which is intended to be effective from the year 2015, would eliminate the only mechanism of control over the vineyards, causing a relocation of production that would threaten the wine-growing heritage of 200,000 wine growers as professionals in our country and the environmental balance of the major producing regionsin the case of Castilla-La Mancha, in the absence of viable alternatives to this type of cultivation.

In this respect, the person in charge of the wine sector of COAG and President of the EU, Alejandro García-Gasco, wine Advisory Committee has stated: "in the course of the last few decades, the system of planting rights has been revealed as a magnificent tool for quality policy and the management of the potential of production within's" the European Union, so little sense wrecking it in one fell swoop. "It is highly paradoxical and inconsistent to devote large budgets to promote vineyard startup to promote then precisely the opposite."

Also, asked the head of environment, Rural and marine, the improvement in the application and design of the measure of 'harvest in green', (boot clusters when they are forming to reduce production and improve quality)already associated with a measure of management of the market cheaper than crisis distillation, and it affects directly to the farmer. Deadlines for implementation and control should be more flexible in this regard, to improve the monitoring and effectiveness.

Finally, given the crisis of prices which crosses sector, it has proposed the articulation of the collective negotiation of agricultural contracts on the basis of the costs of production and with correct periods of payment of the product to the growerin order to guarantee the profitability of the vineyards.