Thanks to the absolute majority of the

PSOE

and with the votes against the PP and CS, in Castilla-La Mancha

it will not be possible to install 'macro-farms'

for at least

the next three years.

This has been approved today by the

Cortes de Castilla-La Mancha

, which have given the green light to a moratorium for the installation of these pig farm surfaces in this specific autonomous community until December 31, 2024.

This regulation comes

after the controversy initiated by Alberto Garzón

about the

quality of Spanish meat

in its exports from this type of macro-farm and precisely in the community where one of the most critical of the position of the Minister of Consumption was the president of this community ,

Emiliano García Page

, who came to say, among other things, that "when you mess up what you have to do is get it out".

Extensions of existing macro-farms will not be authorized either

, although the possibility of authorizing pig farms with "appropriate technological systems" to adapt them to the treatment, recovery and separation of slurry has been left open.

Thus, the regulation is established for pig farm projects that require Integrated Environmental Authorization, specifically for all those that

exceed 2,000 heads

, and no new projects or modifications of other existing industrial spaces that want to increase this amount will be processed.

This moratorium, which involves

modifying the Circular Economy Law of

the region, has been processed as an amendment that the socialist group has presented to the draft Law on Tax and Administrative Measures of Castilla-La Mancha.

asaja opposes

The text specifies that the

Castilian-Manchego pig sector

has undergone a "

great transformation" in the last 15 years

, since from 2006 to the present the census of animals has increased by 47% and of the 1,286 farms of pigs included in 2021 in the registry of livestock farms and zoos of Castilla-La Mancha, 227 correspond to farms with Integrated Environmental Authorization, of which 90 have been processed since 2016.

The agrarian organization

Asaja

Castilla-La Mancha, which had asked to

"knock down" the initiative, has already shown its resounding opposition to this moratorium.

In favor, organizations such as

'Stop Macrogranjas' have been shown,

which goes further and requested that this approach be retroactive.

The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page has specified that this moratorium does not imply its prohibition, but a "procedural pause" to address this issue with "consensus and with" head ", which generates" social sensitivity ". Thus, has specified that "we are not going to prohibit macro-farms, nor can we do so, moreover, taking into account that it would be necessary to discuss what a macro-farm is and what it is not". In this sense, he has explained that "what we are saying is that, Given the multiple interests and problems that exist, it is a way of approaching problems with a head", for which he has criticized that "there are those who want to do it from the cheapest demagoguery and populism or from the most absolute fanaticism.What we are saying is that too many things are happening in European regulations, in environmental regulations and in social sensitivity for us to take a short procedural pause and reach consensus."

In this way, García-Page has insisted that his will is that the legislation that exists in the region regarding the livestock sector as a whole be the result of "consensus", given that it is a "very powerful" sector, which gives thousands and thousands of jobs and that is decisive. "It has to be safe from cheap demagoguery," he insisted.

The president of Castilla-La Mancha has specified that on livestock production "European procedures are changing, there are complaints from Europe to Spain about waste management and what we want is to give ourselves a few months to discuss with the sector the legislation that Better regularize all the aspects that come together here and not just that animal or environmental approach. It is the whole. We fully support a sector such as livestock", he ratified.

Criticism of Garzon

Similarly, the head of the regional Executive has once again indicated that he has disagreed with Minister Garzón, "not now, but before", because, in his opinion, "he cannot say outside of Spain that a Spanish product is of questionable quality ".

"Period, you can't. And don't make up that it's a hoax, a campaign, what if a lobbyist. Nothing happens. We all mess up, me more than Mr. Garzón, but we have to get it out quickly, because when we have institutional responsibilities we have to defend our products, our workers and our companies", he defended.

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