Question 32586 — overseas

Summary

Ms. Josette Manin draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the reduction in option programs specific to remoteness and insularity (POSEI). This decline would result in an automatic reduction in local production in the outermost regions of Europe, which would lead to a crisis in the agricultural sectors of these territories and in particular for overseas territories, while we are experiencing a crisis unprecedented health. This aid is essential for local sectors and processing industries. This is not the first time that threats have weighed on this program. The last attempt failed when Jean-Claude Juncker, then President of the European Commission, and Phil Hogan, then European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, wanted the cuts linked to agricultural policy municipality have no impact on POSEI. The European Parliament then supported this line. Subsequently, Janusz Wojciechowski, the new European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, also indicated that he was in favor of maintaining the budget, provided that the Member States concerned request it. However, we learned that, during a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture, on 21 September 2020, in the presence of the Minister and that of his Spanish and Portuguese counterparts, the Commissioner finally spoke out against the maintenance of POSEI. This is a shortfall of 11 million euros for the French ORs. Other consultation meetings must still take place, including a new “agriculture and fishing” council, on October 19 and 20, 2020, in Luxembourg. She hopes that the Government will continue to support POSEI and would like to know the levers that will be put in place in this direction.

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