Congress demands immediate suspension of EU-Morocco agricultural free trade agreement

Published 2024년 11월 19일

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The farmers' organization, COAG, in Spain has called for an immediate suspension of the agricultural trade agreement between the EU and Morocco, following the European Court's ruling that the agreement violates international law by not obtaining consent from the people of Western Sahara. Despite the court allowing the agreement to be maintained for another year under certain conditions, COAG insists on the immediate application of the judgment and pressure on the EU to annul it. The organization also highlighted the construction of a 'tomato megalopolis' in Dakhla by King Mohammed VI, which is illegally using fertile land from the Sahrawis and farmers in south-east Spain, and is part of Morocco's 'Generation Green' Plan.

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The Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers' Organisations (COAG) has demanded this Monday in the Congress of Deputies the immediate suspension of the agricultural trade agreement between the EU and Morocco after learning of the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union confirming that said agreement, modified in 2019, violates international law by violating, in particular, the principles of self-determination and the relative effect of treaties, as the people of Western Sahara did not give their consent. This was stated this morning by the person responsible for fruits and vegetables, Andrés Góngora, during his speech at the conference on Western Sahara organised by the Polisario Front and several parliamentary groups to announce the terms of the ruling. The ruling of the European Court definitively confirms the annulment of the Council decision that modifies the EU-Morocco Agreement on trade liberalisation of agricultural products, extending the tariff preferences ...

Source: InfoAgro