Bellanova: “European agriculture needs certainties and resources. Well the commission text. We wish full approval "
“European agriculture, which in every country is guaranteeing the food supply chain and food for citizens, needs certainty and needs resources. The text approved today by the Agriculture Commission of the European Parliament captures this need and this urgency ".
So Minister Teresa Bellanova commented yesterday on the main measures adopted in the negotiating proposal on which the discussion with the European Commission and the Council will open with the aim of an agreement by next June.
"Particularly", Continued the Minister,"and among other significant requests, I consider it important, in line with our requests in recent months and in these weeks of dramatic emergency, to request the extension of the current CAP while keeping current funding levels unchanged, avoiding cuts in Italy almost 4% on direct payments and over 15% on rural development; the strengthening of the crisis reserve financed with extra CAP resources for 400 million per year; the strengthening of crisis management tools with a decrease from 30 to 20 percent of the minimum thresholds for loss of income or production also for mutual funds; the recovery of the planting rights of the vineyards allowing our winemakers to use their portfolio rights and not lose thousands of hectares of wine-growing potential. Important in this direction is the great work and commitment of Paolo De Castro ", concludes the Minister," with whom the dialogue and comparison are constant and profitable".