The Commission is taking swift activity and proposes additional exceptional measures to further support agrarian and food markets most touched . The EU agri - food sphere is showing resiliency in these unprecedented time , follow the outbreak of the coronavirus . Still , some markets have been hit hard by the consequences of this public health crisis .
Today ’s package include measures for private store aid ( PSA ) in the dairy and meat sector , the say-so of self - organization market measures by operators in difficult dispatch sphere and flexibility in fruits and vegetables , wine-colored and some other market support programmes .
Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said : ” The event of the coronavirus crisis are more and more being felt in the agri - nutrient sector and this is why we have decided to take fleet action , in summation to the measures already make since the eruption of the crisis . The measures proposed are , in the present state of market developments , specify to send a signal aimed at stabilising markets and are considered to be the most appropriate for provide stability to future prices and product and thus stable food supplies and food for thought security . Today we are announcing a new and exceptional package of measures to support the most dissemble agri - food sectors by plow already observed interference as well as future risks . I am confident that these measures will unbosom markets , and show concrete results rapidly . ”
especial criterion declare as a further reply to the Coronavirus crisis let in :
tractability for market reenforcement programmes : the Commission will innovate flexibility in the implementation of market support program for wine , fruits and vegetables , olive oil , beekeeping and the EU ’s school scheme ( milk , yield and vegetables ) . This will tolerate the reorientation of backing priorities towards crisis management measures for all the sector .
Exceptional depreciation from EU contender rules : applicable to the milk , bloom and potatoes sectors , the Commission will pass the disparagement from certain contender rule under Article 222 of the Common Markets Organisation Regulation , that allows operators to adopt self - organisation market measures . Concretely , these sectors will be allowed to jointly take measures to stabilise the grocery .
For example , the milk sector will be allowed to collectively plan Milk River yield and the heyday and potatoes sphere will be allowed to withdraw merchandise from the grocery store . Storage by private operators will also be allowed . Such agreements and decisions would only be valid for a period of maximal six month . Consumer price movements will be monitored closely to avoid adverse effects .
The Commission calculate to have these measures sweep up by the remainder of April . Beforehand Member States will need to be confabulate , and vote on these measures . They are therefore open to change . The full detail of these proposals will be unveiled at the time of their final adoption .
The package announced today play along a comprehensive software program of other measures embrace early on on by the Commission to support the agri - food sector in the current crisis , such as increased amounts for state economic aid , higher in advance payments , and stretch deadlines to resign payment requests . The increased tractability regarding Common Agricultural Policy formula aims to alleviate the administrative incumbrance on granger and national government activity .
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