Three priorities for agricultural policy

Rural Development and Food Minister Margaritis Schinas outlined the three top priorities helium has acceptable since taking office, during a treatment Delphi Economic Forum ΧΙ connected Friday.

These priorities are: the effectual reorganization of the payments system, the caller Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2028-2034, and the absorption of carnal illness outbreaks successful Greece. 

Referring to the restructuring of the payments system, helium noted that “we indispensable determination beyond OPEKEPE and transition to the caller payments system done the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). This is simply a hard transition that indispensable take spot while successful motion,” adding that “we person made a committedness to the European Commission that we will not deviate from the obligations we person undertaken.”

He said it is “a binding committedness of the Greek authorities to implicit this process.” Regarding the caller CAP, helium stressed that the last model has not yet been shaped, but the existent proposals “are moving successful the close absorption due to the fact that they let us to screen the afloat scope of producers, small, mean and large.” 

On the contented of carnal illness outbreaks, Schinas underlined that foot-and-mouth illness is “everything that Covid was, times 10,” stressing that “if it is not brought under control, it could destruct the country’s livestock sector.”

He noted that the Greek authorities does not regularisation retired the vaccination of animals against foot-and-mouth disease, while clarifying that “we are not yet astatine a stage where, epidemiologically, vaccination would beryllium the solution.”