European banana producers call on the EC to adopt urgent measures

Published 2024년 10월 15일

Tridge summary

European banana producers from France, Portugal, and Spain have met with the European Commission to address the crisis in the sector due to climatic, commercial, and regulatory issues. They highlighted the challenges faced by banana production in the Canary Islands, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Madeira, including rising cultivation and export costs, and unfair competition from imported bananas. They have requested the formation of working groups to study the problem and implement measures to ensure the sector's survival. The producers also reminded the Commission of its commitment to address the capacity of European production to adapt to changes in trade and regulations, as made when the free trade agreement with Ecuador was approved in 2017.
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Original content

The representation of European banana producers from France, Portugal and Spain met yesterday Monday in Brussels with technical managers from the Directorate General for Agriculture and Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission to monitor the serious climatic, commercial and regulatory context that the sector is facing and which has caused a serious crisis of economic viability. At the meeting, a previous step to the meetings that are also planned with the MEPs of the different groups of the European Parliament starting today Tuesday, the difficulties that banana production in the Canary Islands, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Madeira is going through were exposed, and among which the excessive increase in cultivation and export costs stands out, as well as the market context generated by the growing unfair competition from imported bananas, to which the same environmental and production criteria are not applied. The European banana representation has directed the ...
Source: Mercados

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