COAG Considers that the commissioner Ciolos wants to ruin the sector remolachero Spanish

Both instruments, quotas and minimum prices, have sustained the stability of the production of beetroot and sugar in the EU, and his supresión only can interest to determinate producing countries, but that for Spain, in spite of being in command European in performances, would mean the total dismantlement of the productive fabric associated to said productions, that are strategic for the economy and the employment in wide zones of our regadíos. By his part, the consequent risk of desabastecimiento of the industry would have grave consequences, like the disappearance of numerous places of work or the evident repercussions for the consumers.

The intentions of the European Commission, defended by the commissioner Dacian Ciolos, are still more reprobables, according to COAG, when besides they justify with slanted data or directly false: it is not true that the PVD enjoy of boundless exports to the EU, since the imports from these countries, between which finds Brazil, that occupies almost the 70 % of the world-wide exports of sugar, follow contingentadas. Only they have boundless access the productions of the PMA, but whose exports in the EU are escasamente representative, to the margin of which realise/realize in the frame of the traditional preferential agreements that from does decades include in the balance of procurements of sugar in Europe.