French fruit producers ask for crisis management urgent measures

French producers of fruit asked the European Commission to urgently start crisis management measures that allow the sector to face critical situations as in 2011, which saw the French sector reduce average incomes in orchard exploitations by 4,700 Euro, against the 22,7000 Euro average obtained in 2008, as highlighted by Bruno Dupont, president for the National Federation of Fruit Producers (FNPF), during its congress on the 25th and 26th of January.

For the FNPF, the several crisis in 2011 - "health plan, communication and market" showed how inefficient the crisis management measures are and how negative the managing by the European Commission was. "We are totally unprotected to act with efficiency on some aspects that allow producers to pass the crisis and this situation affects France, Italy and Spain the same way".

For the FNPF it's urgent that the European Commission starts crisis management measures in the Communitarian markets, setting specific intervention levels according to the member states, not waiting any longer for an "hypothetical reform of the measures related to the fruits and vegetables sector in the OCM in 2015".

FEPEX supports totally the urgent need that the European Commission authorities measures that allow producers to act in market crisis situations that don't affect the work of the single market in the community.

Source: Fepex