The professionals of the agricultural sector debate about the reform of the PAC in the headquarters of the School of Veterinary of Madrid

The Association of the Veterinary National Body organised the past day 4 April, in collaboration with the School of Veterinary of Madrid in the headquarters of this last, a round table on the repercussion of the reform of the PAC in the agricultural sector Spanish, that gathered to representatives of the administration, agricultural cooperatives, veterinary, graziers, agriculturalists and media of the sector.

The act was inaugurated by the president of the COVM, Felipe Vilas, the one who stood out that “the future of the graziers is tied to the future of the veterinary, that always have been to his side”. In his opinion, it is necessary to take advantage of the reform to do an effort between all and restructure of once the sector so that it was more efficient. Vilas Praised the work of the current Minister of Agriculture and his team, represented in the table by Carlos Cabanas, general director of Productions and Agricultural Markets.

Felipe Vilas, president of the COVM.

To continuation, the president of the ACNV Quintiliano Pérez Bonilla, did the presentation of the speakers of the table: D. Carlos Cabanas, general director of Productions and Agricultural Markets of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feeding and Environingingment, D. Tirso Yuste, general director of Agriculture and Livestock of the Council of Agriculture of Castile-La Mancha, D. Eduardo Baamonde, president of the Confederation of Cooperative Agroalimentarias, D. Pedro Cheap, president of ASAJA, D. Lorenzo Bouquets, president of UPA and D. José Luis Miguel of Diego, in representation of COAG.

Of left to right: Eduardo Baamonde, Lorenzo Bouquets, Tirso Yuste, Carlos Cabanas, Pedro Cheap and José Luis Miguel.

The current process of reform of the entity finds in his point álgido, after the presentation of the proposal of the Commission of October of 2011, the approval of the community budget for the period 2014-2020 in February of this year, the even more recent approval of the political agreement in the Council of Agriculture reached the past 19 March and the presentation in the day of yesterday, of the amendments of the European Parliament to the proposal of the Commission. This month of April opens the process of negotiation between the Council-Parliament-Commission, in the designated trílogo, that will finish for defining the future PAC, in his four Regulations.

Said agreement has been valued of form very positive by the Minister Arias Cañete since it supposes the fulfillment of the practical whole of the aims of negotiation of our country, agreed with the CCAA in Sectorial Conference in June of 2012, and deletes all those appearances that prejudiced to the agricultural productive sectors Spaniards.

Like this, we find us in front of a situation never sight previously in the long history of the entity, where for the first time the European Parliament will have a capacity of similar decision to the one of the States Members. Besides, this politics and his bottoms have argued in a European Union with 28 States Members in full economic recession.

Of the results of this reform goes to depend in good measure the future of our agriculturalists and graziers, since according to data of the FEGA of the year 2012, Spain received more than 5.700 million euros only in payments of the first pillar, and other 800 in matter of rural development. The economic importance of the PAC exceeds the agricultural field since it is key to the hour to have a positive balance between our contributions to the European Union and the bottoms that of this receive.

Along the table, the debate turned fundamentally around the following subjects: the distribution of bottoms between EE.MM., the called external convergence, considering that the bottoms keep to stable levels, in comparison with the previous period of negotiation; the convergence of the quantity paid by hectare, no only between States Members but inside each country. Spain has the peculiarity to be one of the countries with greater variety of agricultural productions and graziers, from here the complexity in this distribution between the 17 Autonomous Communities; the effective application of the measures of markets, in the regulation of the OCM only (Common Organisation of Markets), and his adaptation to the reality; the green component of the PAC (greening), in which they remain slopes to decide the precise conditions to apply in the case of each agriculturalist; the 'capping' or establishment of a maximum quantity to perceive by the big perceptores of bottoms. Linked to this debate, will be the fixation or no, of the definition of active agriculturalist; the establishment of voluntary payments, tied to the production (joined up) to specific sectors and disadvantaged and highland zones; and the disappearance of the dairy quotas and the extention of the current system of helps to the viñedo.