a record for Water Consumptionfor another According to mea book with each person’s name going in and out of the farmThe other is for control. animal feces or wasteand someone else to evaluate the situation. nitrogens produced. Added to all this is a call farm registryis the document in which they should record all activities. “There are times when the same action must be documented no more than three timesJordi Armengol, a farm owner from Juneda (Garrigues) and co-owner of a small family agricultural business with his father, calculates at the end of the week: Bureaucracy takes up 20% of total working hours. “Sometimes paperwork takes up even more of my time, especially when it comes time to file taxes or apply for benefits,” she says.
While farmers (Catalan, Spanish and European) protest bureaucratic overload, they insist on differentiating their situation from other professional groups that condemn the same thing (evil is general, from doctors to nurses to teachers). When it comes to the agricultural sector, they regret it. cumbersome administrative work Their endorsements do not guarantee that their products will come to market on equal terms to others. “An engine produced in China that does not meet the quality standards required by the European Union, which means it pollutes the environment more, will never be marketed here… But this does not happen with food. They come from non-EU countries They enter without following the cultivation and quality processes required from us and often without even paying the tariff because they benefit from it. preferential trade agreements for them,” continues Armengol, head of the livestock sector of the Unió de Pagesos (UP) union.
Commitment to simplify
The Generalitat announced the establishment of a new formation for now. one stop serviceThis project, which is being finalized according to the resources of the Department of Climate Action and whose aim is to simplify these tasks. Everything indicates that the application It will be available at the end of March “If everything goes well”, as the Minister of Climate Action David Mascort explained in an interview with TVE this Friday. Explaining that the portal is currently in the testing phase “to see whether it works by different user groups,” Mascort said, “Currently, farmers need to access 14 different applications.”
The review of the bureaucratic burden is also one of the commitments contained in the proposed resolution that the PSC, ERC, Junts, CUP, Comuns and Ciutadans registered in Parliament this Thursday after the visit of a group of farmers. The text will be processed immediately so you can see the text. Green light at the next plenary sessionWithin two weeks, according to Sara González and Carlota Camps.
Agriculture Minister Luis Planas also said he would work for bureaucratic simplification and regulatory requirements. In his speech to the Congress of Representatives on January 25, Planas said: working group with autonomous communities Identifying the main existing bureaucratic hurdles, both in CAP and other procedures, and looking for simpler formulas to handle them.
“The only address they promised us is A practical and intuitive toolbecause there will be many small farmers who will not be able to adapt to the current situation,” adds farm owner Armengol. “Ideally, once the information is conveyed, the farmer can forget it and this is done by the Administration. Rossend Saltiveri, who is in charge of the pork sector in UP, adds: “Farmers and ranchers must be responsible at this time.” health and food guarantee issuesfor reasons environmentalfor him animal welfarefor employment contracts to those who work for Expansions or works on farms…All this means having to deal with very different departments, which often forces us to copy“. The implementation of this single window also includes “Management itself is more efficient and instead of three inspections a year on the same farm, all procedures will be resolved in a single inspection,” concludes the union member.