EL SECTOR CÁRNICO AVÍCOLA EXIGE QUE LOS ESTAMENTOS EUROPEOS CONSIDEREN LA REALIDAD DE LOS SECTORES AGROALIMENTARIOS

Madrid, February 9, 2024. AVIANZA (Spanish Interprofessional Poultry Meat Association) joins the discontent of European livestock breeders and farmers and once again demands, as it has done in recent months, the urgent need for European institutions to adjust current and future regulations to the real situation of the sector. agri-food in each country.

For Avianza, regulatory changes cannot go against a strategic sector such as that of farmers in Europe, leading them to produce in an unfair and anti-competitive system, which forces local producers to meet high standards. while this compliance is forgotten for producers from markets outside the EU.

One of the latest comparative grievances is the community policies regarding a supposed increase in animal welfare. Our sector being one of the most guaranteeing in this area, regulations far from verified facts will once again suffocate the entire agri-food sector, leading it to one of the biggest crises in its history, since the profitability and viability of its farms will be affected. seriously compromised.

Regulations that could reduce almost 70% of the useful surface area of farms, require million-dollar investments in new facilities or increase production costs to a point of no return to economic viability. Measures that could triple the price of a whole chicken carcass, for example.

Measures also such as the new European regulation for the transport of animals, whose application does not take into account the climatic conditions of a country like Spain, nor the working conditions of the sector.

For this reason, we ask that we have the vision of all the agents involved to reach satisfactory solutions in all aspects, and not continue regulating with our backs turned, not only to the producers, but to the citizens themselves, who will be the main ones harmed by the reduction of the European food self-sufficiency.