Portugal with CAP strategic plan “in conditions” to have the approval of Brussels – Observer
Portugal’s strategic plan for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is “in a position to be approved” by the European Commission, the Government announced this week, expecting in September the value of Brussels for this package of 6,700 euros.
all questions [levantadas pela Comissão Europeia] are healed and today what was here by the commissioner [da Agricultura, Janusz Wojciechowski] is that the Portuguese strategic program for the PAC is in conditions to be approved and we hope that, during the first of September, this can happen”, said the minister responsible, Maria do Céu Antunes, speaking at a fortnightly conference in Brussels.
The official spoke to a reporter to Portuguese journalists after the Agriculture Council, on June 12, and being the Polish presenter, who announced that “the Portuguese strategic plan, first one being presented, is now part of a package of five other strategic plans that are in a position to be formally approved”according to a ruler.
We welcome this because it means that from this moment on, all the conditions to develop a work that has already begun, namely in the production of the national configuration, the necessary information system and […] to give predictability to our products to prepare for the next campaign”, said Maria do Céu Antunes.
“It is good news that we take from here to Portugal today”, he concluded.
Through the social network Twitter, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, shared that he had a “productive bilateral meeting” with Maria do Antunes, on the sidelines of the Agriculture Council, to contest a “positive and good cooperation in the Portuguese strategic plan for a CAP”.
In mid-June, the Ministry of Agriculture submitted the CAP Strategic Plan for the period 2023-2027 to the European Commission, with a financial envelope of 6,700 million eurosfunds that include income support, sectoral and rural development programs for the mainland and the autonomous regions of Madeira and Azores.
For the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework, Portugal is entitled to around €10 billion for the PAC.