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    AREFLH welcomes the European Parliament’s adoption of the report on the European Recovery Instrument for Rural Development

    AREFLH strongly welcomes the European Parliament Agriculture…
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    Janusz Wojciechowski, proposed as Commissioner of Agriculture

    Janusz Wojciechowski. Agriculture is a Polish politician and former member of the European Parliament.
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    AVA-ASAJA denounces the passivity of the EU in the face of the proliferation of South African citrus fruits with black spots

    The Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA) has denounced that the detection on the European borders of South African citrus fruits affected by the dangerous disease of the black spot (Citrus Black Spot) has multiplied sixfold during the 2017 campaign, reaching a total of 24, before the passivity of the European Union. In view of these latest official data, the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA) has accused Brussels of maintaining a position of clear complicity with South Africa and of seriously undermining the interests of the entire European citrus industry.
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    EU: the Commission will ensure that the US comply with the rules of the WTO in its investigation of the Spanish olive

    By Milagros Jurado The services of the European Commission…

    Juan Marín relieves Jorge Brotons as president of Eucofel

    The candidate of FEPEX, Juan Marín, was elected last December 5, in Brussels, president of the European Association of the Trade of Fruits and Vegetables of the EU, EUCOFEL, taking over from the current president of FEPEX, Jorge Brotons.

    EU: Member States support the new standards for organic farming

    The European Commission has assessed as a decisive step the support that Member States have expressed on November 20th, for the approval of new standards for organic farming, which would establish a simplified legal framework that would cover all producers, since be from the EU or from third countries exporting to the EU.

    Aguilera urges EU to take urgent steps to halt the advance of Xylella

    The Socialist MEP and Vice-President of the Committee on Agriculture in the European Parliament, Clara Aguilera, has called on the European Commission to take urgent steps to halt the progress of Xylella fastidiosa, which is already affecting several countries in continental Europe, including Spain and more concretely to the regions of the Valencian Community and Baleares. Aguilera recalls that no administration should "evade its responsibility to stop the plague" and calls for compensation for affected producers.

    EU: Aguilera calls for greater harmonization and coordination in food and health alert systems

    Socialist MEP and deputy chairwoman of the parliamentary committee, Clara Aguilera has demanded that the notification procedure followed by EU countries for the activation of the rapid alert system for food and feed be revised. Along these lines, Aguilera advocated the need for greater harmonization and coordination between the food and health alert systems of the Community countries. A petition, which was raised during the session held on 31st August in the European Parliament and in which the European Commission was accountable to the members of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture on the protocols put in place to deal with the crisis of eggs contaminated with fipronil.

    The wine sector, satisfied by the EU-Japan agreement that will boost sales to this country

    The wine sector has celebrated the principle of a trade agreement recently reached between the European Union and Japan, which will give a strong boost to wine exports to the Japanese market. Thus, the Economic Partnership Agreement with Japan, which could enter into force in 2019, eliminates import tariffs and includes protection for geographical indications.

    Aguilera calls on the EU to urgently authorize the advance payment of CAP aid in Spain

    The Socialist MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee, Clara Aguilera, has urged the European Commission in writing to give a green light to the advance of 70% of CAP aid in Spain.