Hatzidakis informed the EU Commissioner for Agriculture on the absorption of OPEKEPE by ADDE

Vice Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis met contiguous successful Brussels with Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Christophe Hansen. The exclusive taxable of their treatment was the OPEKEPE and its absorption by the AADE.

Hatzidakis underlined the government’s determination to extremity immoderate unfair practices successful the outgo of subsidies to farmers. But besides the Prime Minister’s committedness to the accelerated absorption of the OPEKEPE by the AADE, based connected the timetables already announced, underlining the undisputed credibility of the taxation authorization successful Greece. The Deputy Prime Minister besides pointed retired that, successful the aforesaid context, the Greek Government’s volition is to person the applicable legislative provisions passed by Parliament soon, truthful that the modulation from OPEKEPE to AADE proceeds with velocity and reliability, without hindering the outgo of assistance to farmers, provided of people that this follows the provisions of EU law. In the meantime, the enactment program for the reliability of the assistance outgo strategy volition besides beryllium implemented and updated wherever necessary. To this end, Mr Hatzidakis noted that the Greek authorities, and successful peculiar the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Rural Development and Food and the Greek State Revenue Service, are acceptable to cooperate with the services of the European Commission arsenic of adjacent week.

For his part, Commissioner Hansen noted that helium and the services of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development volition cooperate instantly and connected a regular ground with the Greek side, truthful that the absorption of OPEKEPE by AADE, arsenic good arsenic the full program of action, proceed with velocity and successful a mode that satisfies the comments submitted by the European Commission. Both sides agreed to clasp the archetypal gathering adjacent week.