Spain asks Brussels to monitor the impact of animal diseases on the agricultural market

Spanish Agriculture Minister Luis Planas called on Monday for the European Commission (EC) to closely monitor the evolution of agricultural markets in relation to animal diseases and to adopt "the measures it deems appropriate." "We have to take into account what is and closely follow what is the evolution of the markets in relation to these problems. We already have them from the export point of view, but we need to follow them more closely and we will ask the Commission to do so and, if necessary, adopt the measures it deems appropriate," he declared upon arrival at the meeting of European Union (EU) agriculture ministers being held in Luxembourg. At that meeting, the ministers will debate the situation of agricultural markets. "We are seeing how in Europe there are diseases present in the animal world that are affecting our production, also in the case of Spain. I will explain what refers to Spain," commented Planas. In that regard, he pointed out that the country has had "the ...