First there was an order to define the follow-up structures of the Common Agricultural Policy (PEPAC) Implementation Plan, excluding the Confederation of Portuguese Farmers (CAP) – the largest and most representative of the sector, the only one with a permanent seat in the Social Concert. Then the denial of the Minister of Cohesion of what Maria do Céu Antunes had said about the weight and relevance that the sector will have (or not) with the extinction of the Regional Directorates of Agriculture (DRA) and their integration into the CCDR. In two days, the Agriculture Minister was once again held in check by “successive mistakes”, which leave the CAP disbelieving about its continuity.
“The Minister of Agriculture has republished the dispatch, now including the CAP, as was our demand,” explains Eduardo Oliveira e Sousa, president of the confederation that brings together nearly 300 members of the primary sector, to Dinheiro Vivo. The guardianship attributed the omission to a “lapse of publication beyond the control of the Department of Agriculture and Food,” republishing the corrected order on Feb. 15. Now including CAP and the deletion of the Associação das Mulheres Agricultores de Portugal (AMAP), an institution that has been extinct for a decade, but immediately emerged in the original list of PEPAC supervisory institutions. The AMAP was revoked, but “the CAP had to report that this association was dissolved ten years ago,” emphasizes the president of the confederation.
CAP sees even more problems in the document.
Source: DN
