The agricultural organization COAG has highlighted the revaluation of pig slurry and manure as a competitive fertilizer in the current market due to the rising cost of urea caused by the conflict in the Middle East, which they see as a "historic opportunity". COAG has pointed out that this is a "local, immediate, and independent of external sources" by-product. The head of the livestock sector at COAG, Jaume Bernis, has called for Spain not to fall behind "in a context of fertilizer crisis and the need for strategic autonomy". For this reason, he believes it is appropriate to make the current regulations more flexible as Ireland, Denmark, Austria, Germany, or the Netherlands have done. Specifically, this organization has requested the recognition of manure and slurry as a resource, "not as waste"; more investment in valorization infrastructures through CAP and FEADER funds; a national platform for the exchange of organic nutrients; support for anaerobic digestion in medium-sized ...