Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España

Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España position on the Commission's proposal on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España, points out that, in general, it is in favour of this Commission initiative to reduce the use of packaging and packaging waste, but also to optimise packaging and move towards the circularity of packaging materials.

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Agri-cooperatives play an important role in supporting the right to stay in rural areas, as they are strongly rooted in their territories and help maintain local economic activity, employment, services, and value creation.

Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 31 May 2023 on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 was published in a very different commercial context than today.

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Spanish Agri-Food Cooperatives consider that the changes proposed by the Commission with regard to the amendment of the Honey Directive are totally insufficient. The results of the fraud analysis carried out show that there is a very serious problem, especially with imported honey and the blends of these honeys with European honeys, which affects producers and consumers.

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Spanish Agro-Food Cooperatives present this document which supports and complements the position expressed by our organisation at EU level Copa-Cogeca. We provide comments in three specific sectors and in relation to marketing standards: — Fruit and vegetables. — Olive oil. — Miel.

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There are right now fantastic digital tool supporting farmers for improved irrigation. They are private software and public tools (SATIVUM , SIAR) and also sector backed tools such ours C3-SIGCEX. Despite this, even the free access tools lack of uptake due to barriers and digital divide. It compromises them since are also based on farm information retrofeeding.

We welcome the initiative of the EU institutions and Member States to put producers at the centre of the debate on agriculture and livestock farming, the need to improve their position in the value chain and to recognise that the profitability of the primary sector is necessary for the market to function properly.

Spain is a pioneer in this type of legislation to regulate UTPs in the market and ensure its optimal functioning. We support both Spanish legislation and the EU Directive in this regard. However, based on our experience in Spain and in the market, we must draw attention to its limited scope in relation to certain objectives, especially those that seek profitability and minimum prices for farmers in the market due to…

Spanish food cooperatives appreciate the new stunning methods included in this proposal to amend Council Regulation 1099/2009. However, we believe that the conditions for applying captive bolt pistols that do not penetrate piglets, lambs and kids in Chapter II of Annex I can be interpreted very restrictively.

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Spain is a pioneer in this type of regulation to regulate Unfair Commercial Practices in the market and to ensure that it functions better. The aim of this regulation is to avoid the abuse of some companies over others, especially those of agricultural and livestock producers, in commercial relations through its pioneering food chain law, amended in 2021.

Spain’s Agro-Food Cooperatives generally welcomes the proposal of 28 March amending Regulations (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) 2021/2115 and (EU) No 251/2014 as regards certain market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and aromatised wine products. We then put forward some changes that would improve the proposal and we attach the assessment of this organisation in a broader document.

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