21/02/2025
López Miras strengthens the defense of the interests of the region’s dominion of the Natural Resources Commission of the EU
As vice president of this body of the Committee of the Region, a position from which he will seek to influence European policies affecting agriculture and the fishing sector in the region.
Some of the objectives on the table are the application of mirror clauses, reducing bureaucratic burdens when applying for aid or PAC reform to adapt to criteria such as drought and desert progress.
López Miras takes office as a new vice president of the Committee of Regions of Europe
The president of the regional government, Fernando López Miras, took office today as a new vice president of the Committee of the Region, a position he promised to «take the voice of farmers in the Murcia region to Brussels» Among the objectives. is the defense of the rural environment and the fishing sector in the region of Murcia and the influence of European policies affecting them.
For López Miras, this committee «is essential for the future of the Murcia region and the European Union,» because it deals with «issues that are key to us.» This body brings together over a hundred mayors, councilors, and regional presidents, and in addition to agriculture and fishing, it covers a wide range of issues related to rural development, health, civil protection, consumer protection, and tourism.
Regarding the influence on defining policies affecting farmers in the region, one of the objectives on the table is the application of mirror clauses in the European Union’s trade agreements with third countries, because «I don’t know that they can Request fewer requirements for products coming from outside the EU than those from the Murcia region.
Therefore, it is about ensuring that products imported from these countries meet the same quality standards, food safety, and durability needed for EU products.
In addition, López Miras said that the committee will work to reduce the bureaucratic task of helping applicants, as farmers face a «very zipper legislation,» with administrative procedures that are a hindrance when accessing these subsidies.
López Miras also emphasized that one of the major challenges will be the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, to ensure that European funds adapt more closely to the new needs of the agricultural sector.
In this case, it will be sought to «make the criteria more flexible, especially for territories like the Spanish Levant, which are experiencing increasingly prolonged drought and growth. There are criteria that must be integrated and harvested in the future PAC,” explained the regional government president in Murcia.
Furthermore, López Miras also advanced that this presidency will take advantage of transferring the excellence of regional agriculture to Brussels «, and say why we are the first agroealth, how we manage water better than anyone in the world, and how we have an efficient, sustainable, modern, and technical agriculture.
Finally, the head of the regional executive appreciated that the committee will advance in the field of disaster risk management, something particularly relevant given the effects of Dana in Valencia.
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