Afrucat asks to increase from 30 to 40Mkg the withdrawal quota to recover prices on bone fruit
The Managing Director of the Business Fruit Association of Catalonia (Afrucat), Manel Simon, met on 31st July with his Italian, French and Greek counterparts to coordinate the request for an urgent meeting with the Commission’s DG Agri European Union and demand an increase in the quota of withdrawal of the regulation of extraordinary measures in “that amount that is sufficient and reduce the high pressure that the prices of the fruit of bone of this summer are suffering”.
From Afrucat, it is quantified that the extension of the quota of withdrawal of the regulation of extraordinary measures should oscillate between the 30 and 40 million kilos, and its director has emphasized the importance of that does not leave to the market kilo of peach and nectarina that is not Correctly remunerated.
On July 31st, the 9,500 million kilos of the quota of withdrawals of the regulation of extraordinary measures, amount used in its totality by Aragon, Murcia and Catalonia, in this order
The Director General of Afrucat has pointed out that, to the well-known situation of the Russian veto that the sector has been suffering since summer 2014, is added the trade barrier established by the Eurasian Customs Union (Armenia, Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan And Kyrgyzstan), increasing the phytosanitary requirements and including that the producing countries must be free of Monilinia in order to be able to send product. “This measure, Simon points out, is a clear prioritization of the Turkish market vis-à-vis the European market and is preventing us from reaching Belarus, one of the countries that had increased its imports in recent years”.
Source: Afrucat
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