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Bratislava – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Improvement (MPRV) of the Slovak Republic will handle funding help for meals producers subsequent 12 months, which also needs to be authorised by the Anti-Monopoly Workplace of the Slovak Republic. In response to the Minister of Agriculture, Richard Takáč (Smer-SD), this help needs to be not solely from EU sources but in addition from the state, experiences TASR.
Throughout Friday’s press convention in Bratislava Incheba on the event of the Christmas Days occasion, Takáč identified that this 12 months the agricultural sector additionally authorised one other help scheme to assist the advertising and marketing of Slovak meals producers.
“For the primary time in 20 years, now we have authorised a state help scheme for meals producers,” stated Takáč, stating that this cash is meant for promotion, advertising and marketing, or, for instance, revolutionary labels. Subsequent 12 months, the Ministry of Agriculture will allocate a number of million euros for it.
In response to the minister, the meals business has been on the tail finish of consideration and curiosity for the final 20 years. Up to now, Slovakia was extra self-sufficient, as agriculture was higher developed within the type of slaughterhouses, bakeries, or dairies. Presently, it’s essential to kick-start this complete space, additionally with the assistance of economic sources from European sources and from the state.
Takáč emphasised that one other downside is that a considerable amount of meals is grown in Slovakia, however then exported overseas.
On the finish of the 12 months, the Ministry of Agriculture additionally launched a dual-quality meals management. “We discover a number of meals which are of worse high quality than in different EU international locations, subsequently, at present, intense inspections are underway, the place we need to give you some outcomes by the top of January in order that we will resolve this and be sure that residents, when within the European Union, have the identical meals. It can not occur that an Austrian citizen has one thing of higher high quality in the identical packaging,” concluded Takáč.
Slovakia and the Czech Republic pushed for the European Fee to deal with the difficulty of dual-quality meals within the EU in 2017. In April 2019, the European Parliament authorised a modernization directive on unfair buying and selling practices within the inner market, which strongly penalizes twin high quality and applies not solely to meals merchandise but in addition non-food merchandise. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico politically revived this situation within the EU in 2024. (December 13)
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