VOX will ask Congress for the suspension of the agricultural agreement with Morocco as it considers it harmful to Spanish farmers

Published 2021년 11월 15일

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The VOX Parliamentary Group in the Congress of Deputies will advocate for the suspension of the agricultural agreement with Morocco and the regulation of the use of the name "meat" for artificial vegetable derivatives in the Agriculture Committee. They argue that the agreement leads to the liberalization of tariffs, which negatively impacts the Spanish agricultural sector and southern European agriculture, and causes economic harm by competing with Spanish productions. The group also emphasizes the importance of regulating new plant-based products to prevent deception of consumers and to protect the respect and work of livestock farmers and the meat sector.
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The VOX Parliamentary Group in the Congress of Deputies will defend in the Agriculture Committee the suspension of the agricultural agreement with Morocco and the regularization so that the name of meat cannot be used for artificial vegetable derivatives, "erroneously referred to as vegetable meat", informs the party in a statement. Regarding the agricultural agreement with Morocco, Vox explains that it establishes the liberalization of 55% of tariffs on agricultural and fishing products in Morocco (before it was 3%), and 70% of tariffs on agricultural and fishing products of the European Union within ten years (until now it was 1%). The agreement encourages "a deterioration" of the primary sector in southern Europe that has to compete with Moroccan imports, says Vox. In addition, it "directly harms" the Spanish agricultural sector, since it coincides in calendars and markets with Spanish productions and represents a "great economic damage". The European Economic and Social ...

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