Milk share: Zaia asks a million tons

Rome - The minister of the agricultural and food, Luca Zaia, has pointed the feet in negotiates today with the Commission of the Twenty-seven one had to Bruxelles on the “state of health” of the reform of the Pac (Common Agricultural Policy), in particular on dossier regarding the milk share and the reconversion of the tobacco. The minister has given communication during an encounter with the which confirmed press to Brussels and in a famous ministerale. On the milk share, Zaia has said, has advanced the demand to increase our quota national a million tons, correspondent to approximately the 10 for hundreds than it is now assigned (10 million 800,000 tons to us). Thanks to the disastrous negotiation of 24 years ago (when the regime of the share was established, ndr), we today consume in latte Italy a liter of foreign on the two (quota corresponds to the 58 for hundreds of the requirements, ndr), while all the other Member States are near the 100 for hundreds”. Zaia has asserted: “We ask a million tons in more, we ask and it quickly all and”. The second demand on which it insists the Italian minister regards the reform of the field of the tobacco, and in particular the decision (already taken from the UE, and therefore particularly difficult to return behind) to maintain a partial decoupling” of the financings to the production from 2004 to 2009. In short, after this last date, the aids to the tobacco cultivators completely independent (“will be disaccoppiati”) from the amounts effectively produced. According to Zaia, this would involve “a reconversion instead of a restructure of the field”, in the sense that would not be more convenient to continue to produce tobacco, in particular in the vocate regions, to high quality (Veneto, Umbria and Campania). “We ask a delay (at the end for the decoupling, ndr) till 2013, and this will be an element that will characterize our negotiates” with the partner European. The minister, at last, asks “see again towards the low all the “modulation””, that is the transfer of 23% of the communitarian agricultural financings from the relative voices to the aids of market to those for the support for the rural development. “We believe that excessive 23% or, and think that, if privileggeranno the relative actions to the support of the previewed competitiveness of the rural development (till deep 44% of the available ones in chapter, ndr), then we could accept till 5- 6%”. Zaia moreover asks “new flexibility regarding the use for article 68 of the regulations for the quality productions, like the meat”.

29 / 09 / 2008