Planas sends the reform of the new 'ecological' CAP to Brussels without consensus with the Autonomous Communities or with agricultural organizations

Spain's Strategic Plan for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2023-2027 is

.

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday sent the final document in order to obtain European aid for farmers and ranchers, basic to balance their income.

From now on, the European Commission will evaluate the Spanish approach during the first half of the new year for its entry into force on January 1, 2023.

The funds are endowed with

(of the 386,000 million that will be distributed in total in the EU) for a total of 630,000 beneficiaries. Of that amount, applicants will receive more than 4.8 billion euros per year in direct aid, some 700 million will be allocated to market measures and another 1.7 billion will be allocated to rural development policies.

Precisely, the cut in aid (around 10% compared to the previous period) and, above all,

(approximately 40% of the budget) to the implementation of activities that

have meant that the document arrives without consensus, neither with the autonomous communities nor with the representatives of the agricultural sector, despite the fact that the negotiations have lasted more than three years.

For Minister

, Spain will have a "fairer, more social and more sustainable CAP" but the rest of the actors do not think the same. At the last meeting of the Sectoral Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development, the text was not put to a vote. "If the minister had done it, he would

" say industry sources.

The debate was subjected to the struggle between Autonomous Communities, some even above partisan interests.

This is the case of Aragón (PSOE), which always criticized the model presented by Planas by not prioritizing the professional farmer, who lives exclusively from the countryside.

His advisor

has wondered, annoyed, if all the communities were only looking to maximize "our piece of cake."

It was not the only one, the communities of Murcia and Andalusia have also been the most combative in the final sprint of the negotiations.

THE SECTOR

The opinion of the agricultural sector is practically unanimous and can be summed up in this statement by

, general secretary of COAG: "a great opportunity has been lost", which is why he shows his "disappointment". His criticisms focus on the "hypocrisy" of the new legislation, also directed from Brussels with its 'From Farm to Table' plan, "by demanding very high environmental sustainability at the expense of professional farmers, when we are the first to take care of the field, while turning a blind eye to the productions that come from abroad ". Furthermore, he does not understand how professionals in the field are put "on the same level" with those who do not have it as their first activity.

The president of Asaja,

, considers that the distribution of funds could have been done "differently" so as not to "penalize professional agriculture and professional farmers", in addition to the new system, with eco-schemes, " the redistributive payment is penalized and, ultimately, the model of agriculture and livestock that exists in Spain ".

For the general secretary of UPA,

, "there are few lights and many shadows" in the document because although important new features have been introduced, such as the maximum ceiling for exploitation aid or redistributive payments, he would have preferred to advance "much more " in both cases.

"It is insufficient and short," he sums up.

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