"The Community institutions exhibit their tremendous hypocrisy and incoherence when they increase the demands on European producers to draconian levels but continue to consent and encourage foreign agricultural imports without requiring them to comply with the same rules. Instead of the (global) fight against climate change, Brussels bureaucrats only want to import all the food from third countries so that they can pay for the services and industrial goods we sell them. In addition, it is becoming clear in European society that the reduction of plant medicines can then lead to a reduction of medicine for people,” said the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA)
"The Commission should require reciprocal rules so that imports of products from third countries treated with products that are banned in the EU market are equivalent to those applied in the EU," the EESC responding impact assessments.
The EESC assured that these objectives are certainly ambitious, so it is necessary to establish a reasonable transition period taking into account the different climatic conditions in the different Member States and that it takes an average of ten years for new control tools to reach the market.
Even though it's not binding, this opinion will have to be taken into account by the European Commission once it is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).
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