Spain: ASAJA conveys to the EU Trade Commissioner the discomfort of farmers in the functioning of the community market for agricultural products

Published 2023년 2월 20일

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The Copa-Cogeca meeting in Brussels saw Spanish agricultural association, ASAJA, express concern to EU Trade Commissioner, Valdis Dombrovskis, about the harm to the EU's internal market and trade with third countries, using rice, wine, and table olives as examples. ASAJA criticized the EU's proposal to relax import standards, which would allow more Asian rice into the EU market, arguing it undermines European farming. They also took issue with Ireland's wine labeling and illegal US tariffs on Spanish table olives, calling for the European Commission's action to protect the Single Market. ASAJA also expressed concerns over the proposed agreement with MERCOSUR countries, warning it could lead to a standards war detrimental to European farmers.

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At the Copa-Cogeca praesidia meeting, held last Friday, February 17, in Brussels, with the presence of the Trade Commissioner, Valdis Dombrovskis, ASAJA, through spokesman Pedro Gallardo, conveyed to the Commissioner the discomfort of the Spanish producers on several essential issues for the proper functioning of the EU's internal market and trade with third countries. Rice, wine and Spanish table olives among the great victims. The ASAJA representative at the Cup, Pedro Gallardo, current vice-president of this organization that brings together European farmers and ranchers, referred first of all to what is happening with rice imports from Asia. The EU intends to relax the presence of active substances (specifically Triciclazole), the use of which is not allowed in the cultivation of European rice, so that this Asian production can freely enter the Community market. From ASAJA they describe this proposal as incoherent, absurd and immoral, since it distances us even further from ...

Source: Castilla