Bellanova: "we support and strengthen the wine sector with a wide range of measures"
“With the go-ahead in the State Regions Conference of the Decree on crisis distillation, we are strengthening the responses to the wine sector and that excellence strongly affected by the crisis of the blockade of the Ho.re.ca channel.
Measures shared with the sector and with the Regions through a close confrontation, which today are coming to fruition ".
So the Minister Teresa Bellanova after the approval in today's meeting of the State Regions Conference which sanctioned the agreement on the Mipaaf decree which activates, for the 2019/2020 campaign, the crisis distillation of the common wine, which is assigned an endowment of 50 million euros. The measure, which is part of the common organization of the market in wine, is financed with Community funds and has the dual objective of reducing product stocks and contributing to the supply of ethyl alcohol, to be destined mainly for the production of disinfectants.
"The crisis distillation", underlines Minister Bellanova, "is only the first of the various measures that we have planned in favor of the wine sector to face the crisis resulting from the pandemic from Covid 19 and the consequent lock down imposed by governments around the world , which blocked commercial and tourist-accommodation activities, causing an increase in wine stocks and strong concerns among operators, especially in view of the new harvest.
It is therefore necessary to intervene on several fronts to lighten the market and avoid overproduction that could affect not only the price trend, but also the image of our quality productions. For this reason, in agreement with the supply chain and the Regions, an overall strategy has been developed which, in addition to distillation, provides for further important interventions, first of all that concerning the voluntary reduction of the production of grapes destined for quality wines, the implementation of which 100 million euros were allocated through the Relaunch Law Decree ".
While the crisis distillation intervenes on common wines, the reduction of production is addressed exclusively to quality wines, and producers will be able to join voluntarily, with the expectation of also affecting the improvement of the quality of the grapes that we will find in the bottle starting from next year.
In addition, also in the Legislative Decree, there is an amendment to the so-called single text on wine, which provides for the reduction of the maximum yield per hectare of grapes destined for common wines to 30 tons, compared to the current 50 tons. A structural intervention that launches a clear message on the qualitative path undertaken by the Italian wine sector, increasingly linked to the productions of excellence, closely connected with our Made in Italy.