The EU’s Banana Prices Observatory analyzes the impact of imports
On 29th March, the first working meeting of the Community Banana and Banana Price Observatory, held in the framework of the 4th Forum of the Outermost Regions (RUP), was held in Brussels. The objective of this meeting was to measure the specific impact of banana imports from third countries on the markets of European producer countries and, if necessary, to take measures aimed at ensuring the survival of the Community crop
This quarterly price observatory has been attended by representatives of the Association of European Producers of Banana a(APEB) and the Associations of European banana producer organizations, such as ASPROCAN, representatives of the Parliament European Council, including MEP Gabriel Mato and the Canary Islands Government, including the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Waters, Narvay Quintero, and Deputy Minister of the Primary Sector, Abel Morales.
The meeting was also attended by technicians from CIRAD, a public institution of the French government in charge of monitoring horticultural markets and that will perform technical support tasks of data control and analysis.
In this first meeting the recent evolution of the national markets of the ORs, their contrast with the European average evolution, has been announced and the standardization of the monitoring mechanisms has begun, in order to know the real incidence of the entry of third countries in banana states in the EU.
To that end, the reliability of the information and methods used at European level for the monitoring of banana sales prices, both in the Community and in third countries, has been analyzed, while proposals for accuracy and frequency of market statistics, since the current statistics show contradictions and must be adapted to the operating characteristics of each of the national markets of Spain, France and Portugal.
During the meeting, other priority issues for the European banana sector have been addressed, such as the current process of community legislative reform of organic farming
Another issue has been the situation arising from the initiative of some EU member states that would cover the production practices of third countries, even if the characteristics of these are lower than the requirements for conventional European production. Against this backdrop, European banana producers will initiate actions aimed at conveying the need to establish the same production requirements for European organic production and bio-production imports from third countries as soon as possible.
Source: ASPROCAN
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