"Illegal" aid for fruit: Paris plays the clock

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"Illegal" aid for fruit: Paris plays the clock




by recyclinage » 30/09/09, 09:28

Brussels still considers the 500 million euros of public aid received by French producers from 1992 to 2002 to be "illegal".

As he had committed himself to this summer, Bruno Le Maire, the French Minister for Agriculture, presented yesterday, to the European Commission, his pre-report of expertise on fruits and vegetables. The European executive considers "illegal" the 500 million euros of public aid received by French producers from 1992 to 2002.

Furthermore, Brussels yesterday asked eighteen European countries to recover 214,6 million euros in aid deemed undue, including 71 million euros for France, for irregular expenditure under the "CAP".

In the case of agricultural aid, Paris plays the watch, claiming "a little more time" to explain the genesis of these subsidies. Bruno Le Maire highlights the difficulty of his expertise. "These investigative works are complicated, because they need to go very far back," said the minister to Le Figaro. “We must find archives which are sometimes difficult to locate. It is difficult to know who received exactly that amount, and it will take time. This is what I tried to explain to the Commission in this report, he adds. As I want the most rigorous expertise possible, I prefer to take a little more time and have a serious, objective analysis, which is not the subject of litigation, rather than rushing into something that will lead to additional difficulties. "

Reduce rating for state

The French Ministry of Agriculture is discussing with Brussels the questionable nature of this aid. Paris considers that some of these subsidies do not constitute State aid. "France will not have to reimburse 500 million euros," says Bruno Le Maire, determined to obtain a less salty fine.

France hopes to reduce the score by two thirds, while the State will have to pay for the aid paid to people who have died, and to those who have stopped their exploitation.

Bruno Le Maire also challenges European rules on milk, the other litigation file between Paris and Brussels. "Today, European rules do not allow producers to make a decent living from their production and bring a thousand difficulties to manufacturers, but also to consumers at the end of the chain: France and Germany are determined to obtain a change in these rules Insists the minister, supported by the president of the agricultural committee of the European parliament.

On milk, Paris and Berlin are working in two directions: contractualization between producers and manufacturers in order to guarantee a stable income for all producers on the continent; maintenance of regulation at European level, with effective intervention instruments.


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