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José González asks again why the VAT on meat and fish is not reduced, as has been done with olive oil
16 Jan 2024. Updated at 05:00 a.m.
Animal health in general and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHE) in particular were one of the topics addressed in the Agriculture Sector Conference held this Monday by videoconference. While the Minister of Agriculture advanced in that forum that his department is working with different laboratories to search for a vaccine against EHE, from the Ministry of the Rural Environment They asked for greater agility for its implementation. On the subject of animal health, the minister also announced that this week a meeting of general directors will be held to exchange points of view, in which an assessment will be made of the first year of impact on the EHE, “as I “I committed to you,” he said, while recalling that at the beginning of this year guidelines were published to address different diseases, documents that are “the perfect guide for the autonomous communities,” with which the different plans have been agreed. But the councilor Middle RuralJosé González, as reported by Europa Press, said he did not share the minister’s position in relation to BEFORE about what was already talked about. At the same time, the councilor added that in Galicia the early warning group against this disease will be established this month and computer applications will be enabled so that livestock farmers can warn of this problem.
Beyond this, at the sector conference Luis Planas also spoke about the VAT reduction on some foods. There he also had a replica of the Ministry of the Rural Environment, which in general terms described the meeting as “proceeding” because “there was no case” for the demand to address eight points requested by letter by Galicia regarding “very important issues.” Among them, emerging diseases, VAT reduction on meat and irrigation processing, which “is of particular concern” in A Limia (Ourense).
Regarding VAT, the minister said that the extension of the 0% reduction of this tax on certain basic foods, as well as that of olive oil and pasta at 5%, will be in force until June 30. Furthermore, he recalled that as a result of parliamentary agreements and on the occasion of the validation of royal decree-law 8/2023, the Government will lower the VAT on olive oil to 0%, because, the minister explained, it is a product ” sensitive for the majority of Spanish families. It was there that the councilor asked for explanations to know “the technical reason” to reduce the VAT on oil from 5% to 0%, but he maintains his refusal to lower the VAT on fish and meat. He questions “is there any ideological reason against the consumption of these products.”
In addition, José González showed his “concern” about the fulfillment of the “commitments assumed by the central government with the irrigators” of A Limia. The modernization of irrigation corresponds 80% to the central government and 20% to the irrigators. He warns that “those commitments are not being met.”
Beyond these criticisms, during the sectoral conference, the Ministry of Agriculture announced the distribution of 45,841,750.93 euros between the autonomous communities for wine promotion programs in third country markets by 2025. For the thirteen Galicia there will be an allocation of 1,301,834 million euros. This aid, as explained by the Ministry, comes from the “European Agricultural Agrarian Guarantee Fund (EAGF) to be implemented in 2025, whose call was made in September 2023.” This average had a budget of 55.59 million euros, the applications finally presented were for a total of 45.8 million euros. For this reason, they add, Minister Luis Planas has suggested to the regional councilors in the sector to raise the subsidy to 50%, the maximum allowed, for the 673 programs presented by the autonomies, which have shown their agreement with the ministerial proposal.
With respect to agricultural insurance, the minister advanced the “creation of a working group to evaluate the dysfunctions due to the new insurance lines and to analyze climate impact evaluation studies.” He has also mentioned the recent approval of the Agrarian Insurance Plan for this year and that it has a budget allocation of 284.5 million euros. The minister referred to the efforts of this Government that has been gradually increasing the budget compared to the 211 million euros budgeted in 2018.
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2024-01-16 04:02:33
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