The European Commission advocates adapting the wine sector to current consumption and climate change

Published 2024년 9월 5일

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The European Commission (EC) has called for the adaptation of the European wine sector to address structural issues, new consumption trends, and the impacts of climate change and pests. The EC's Director of Sustainability, Pierre Bascou, highlighted the decline in wine consumption due to various factors, including global instability and increasing production costs. The loss of purchasing power of consumers and the vulnerability of markets to climate change have also been noted. The PP MEP, Esther Herranz García, emphasized the difficult situation in the sector and called for strengthening the planting authorization regime and finding solutions for unprofitable producers. The PSOE MEP, Cristina Maestre, raised concerns about the increase in production and distribution costs and the need for balance between production and sales prices. This precedes the first meeting of a high-level group on wine policy, to be held next Wednesday.

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The European Commission (EC) on Thursday called for adapting the European wine sector to structural problems and new consumption dynamics, increasing resilience, increasing the sustainability of production and applying criteria to combat climate change and the emergence of pests. "We see new trends and an increasing fragmentation of the sector. This affects the production method, labelling and packaging. These structural problems will also have to be addressed on the supply side," said Pierre Bascou, Director of Sustainability at the EC's Agriculture and Rural Development delegation. During the Agriculture and Rural Development Commission, the director highlighted a "considerable decline in wine consumption due to cyclical and structural factors." "In recent years, demand has been affected by a series of events, often unrelated to the sector. I was thinking, for example, of the introduction of import tariffs from the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian aggression ...

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