The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has celebrated the agreement reached this Tuesday by the EU Agriculture Ministers, who have asked to make the environmental requirements even more flexible to access the financing of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). ), and says that it is a “very good decision” for Spanish farmers and ranchers.
“We have achieved the objective we intended today,” Planas said this Tuesday in an interview on RNE, reported by Europa Press, after the 27 have proposed the simplification of the measures associated with the protection of wetlands and peatlands. – large carbon dioxide sinks – or an increase in the ceiling of ‘de minimis’ aid for agriculture.
“It was necessary today for the ministers to give the green light, and we have done so after a long and interesting discussion, and finally now it passes into the hands of Parliament and we have already sent it for approval in April,” said Planas. In any case, the minister is “certain” that both matters relating to minimum soil cover, as well as the issue of crop rotations, the issue of non-productive surfaces or the issue of controls for farms less than 10 hectares, “will succeed.”
“And what is more important, which is what I asked for last month and have stressed today, which applies immediately and with retroactive effect to last January 1. I believe all of this is a great achievement and I am very happy with the result of this advice,” he added.
