Since the arrival of Julien Denormandie as Minister of Agriculture and Food, in July 2020, many citizen organizations have repeatedly requested conferences with him. In useless. The door of the minister’s workplace stays closed to them, when different stakeholders multiply the conferences at the Hôtel de Villeroy. The NGOs as we speak denounce this asymmetry of curiosity and listening on the half of Julien Denormandie and are fearful about its penalties in the arbitrations that he’ll soak up the coming weeks, specifically for the reform of the CAP.
Farmers’ organizations, environmental safety and animal welfare associations and shopper associations are half of the checklist of stakeholders formally consulted by the French authorities for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). They are handled on an equal footing with agricultural organizations in any respect ranges of the course of… Except one: that of bilateral conferences with the present Minister of Agriculture and Food! Indeed, whereas the reform of the CAP has been one of the main points on the minister’s agenda since final summer time, each for its negotiation at European stage and for its implementation at nationwide stage, Julien Denormandie doesn’t appear inclined to meet some of the actors consulted by its providers on this file.
The truth {that a} Minister of Agriculture has by no means acquired some of the member associations of the official committees of his ministry constitutes an unprecedented precedent! The remark is sufficiently shared by a variety of organizations in order that it can’t be a easy drawback of the agenda: for the previous seven months, there have been dozens of assembly requests, each from organizations agricultural growth, environmental associations or customers, but additionally the platform For one other CAP bringing collectively 45 national-scale constructions, which have remained useless letters. These organizations reiterate their request to be acquired individually by the Minister.
Julien Denormandie’s apparent selection not to make himself accessible to this sort of actor doesn’t bode effectively as to the place he provides them in the development of the CAP reform. However, the organizations involved have actual legitimacy and experience: they’ve been working collectively for a number of years to develop a concrete, real looking and impressive CAP reform challenge. They worry that the choices taken by Julien Denormandie for the reform of the CAP will replicate the actors he may have acquired, thus giving precedence to the pursuits of the short-term agricultural economic system – competitiveness and productiveness in thoughts – over all one other consideration.
The signatory organizations subsequently ask Julien Denormandie to honor his operate as Minister in cost of meals. They remind him that environmental or animal welfare points can not be ignored or decreased to beauty measures and that citizen-consumers, funders of the CAP, have the proper to demand that it actually allow the world agriculture to meet their aspirations, by accelerating the transition to manufacturing strategies which can be extra respectful of the environment and the well being of customers. They subsequently hope to have the alternative, throughout the month of February, to present the Minister with components of appreciation permitting him to perform, at the finish of the consultations, balanced arbitrations in accordance with the common curiosity.
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