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6 │ April 2012 MEP LA VIA warns final decision on CAP could be held up by EU budget talks MEP Giovanni la Via warned in an interview that a final decision on the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) could be held up by talks on the EU budget for 2014-2020, preventing implementation of the new CAP reform on January 1 2014. In an interview with Copa-Cogeca, Mr Giovanni La Via , who is rapporteur on the financing, management and monitoring aspects of the EU Commissions’ proposals on the future CAP, said he doubts there will be an agreement on priorities for the new EU financial framework 2014-2020 under the Danish Presidency. This will make it difficult to get a final agreement on it by the deadline of December 2012. It will also be hard to agree in 2013 in view of the German elections, he added. So far, seven Member States, namely UK, Germany, NL, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, have argued that expenditure proposed under the Commission proposal must be cut whilst the majority viewed it as a good basis for discussion, underlining the need for a strong CAP and Cohesion Policy. Without an agreement, there will not be a final vote in Parliament´s Agriculture Committee on the future CAP which could delay implementation of the new CAP reform scheduled for January 1 2014, he added. Mr La Via, together with MEPs Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos and Michel Dantin who are reporting on behalf of European Parliament on the Commissions’ proposals on the future CAP, have also agreed to state in their reports that if the final vote on the budget is different from the Commission proposals, everything will have to be re-thought. He believes that there must be a strong budget to fund the future CAP. Copa-Cogeca believes too that there needs to be a strong budget and that its crucial first to agree on the EU budget for 2014-2020 before making a final decision on the future CAP. Mr Giovanni La Via went on to highlight the need for much more simplification in the Commissions proposals on the future CAP and for procedures to be streamlined. He pointed out that there are currently 81 payment agencies at EU level and many regional agencies. For example in Italy, there are five different payment agencies in one region. He insisted that Giovanni la Via there should only be one national payment agency in each member state, with delegated regional offices, to ensure there is one system in each country. He also believes that sanctions charged to farmers for not complying with the proposed new rules under the CAP are too severe in some cases. For example, farmers not applying mandatory greening measures under the Commission proposal could lose not only 30% of their direct payments but also a cut in the basic payment. He wants clarification on this and believes sanctions should be reduced for small farmers if for example they do not manage to comply with the rules on taking 7% of land out of production. Copa- Cogeca also believes the penalties are unacceptable
To: Jacques Eugene Subject: photo thierry coste- wine article Date: mercredi 22 septembre 2010 17:32:53 April 2012 │ 7 Copa-Cogeca welcomes Ciolos move to create high level group on wine planting rights but warns it must not delay proposals to keep planting rights in sector Copa-Cogeca has welcomed EU Farm Commissioner Dacian Cioloş’ move to create a high-level group to look at wine planting rights. We look forward to contributing to the work of this Group but stress that a proposal to maintain planting rights for all types of wine in the EU sector must be released and the establishment of this group must not delay the process. IMG_0295 Thierry Coste Copa-Cogeca Secretary-General Pekka Pesonen stressed “The wine sector is an area where the agri-food trade between the EU and non-EU countries excels, with exports reaching €6.7 billion in 2010, accounting for nearly a quarter of European exports of agricultural products. From an economic point of view, European production consequently plays a strategic role and is also an important source of employment in many rural areas of the EU”. Luxembourg, Austria, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia and Bulgaria – also now oppose plans to phase them out in 2015. Copa-Cogeca has just published a Communication on this which is available on our website. Chairman of Copa-Cogeca wine working party Thierry Coste said “Copa-Cogeca is very worried about what would happen in the EU wine sector if planting rights were to be abolished. Liberalisation of planting rights would cause major changes to Europe’s wine-growing areas and it would add to the existing imbalances in the food chain, to the detriment of the production sector. The system of planting rights helps to accompany the EU wine market and wine production with a regular increase in the area under vines as well as guarantee the quality of wine produced in the EU”. Copa-Cogeca consequently urges the EU Commission to proceed without further delay with a proposal which maintains planting rights in the wine sector, instead of phasing them out, as this has already caused major concerns in the EU-wine producing sector. A rapid decision on maintaining planting rights is required to enable producers to make the necessary investments. MEPs have already called for planting rights to be kept after 2015, when voting on the report on the future of the CAP in May and they held a successful hearing on 19 March on the issue. Fifteen Member States – France, Germany, Italy, Cyprus,
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