Important agricultural and forest policy course at European level is expected in this “heated” summer. The focal points include in particular those for 16.7. expected proposals for the multi -year financial framework (MFR) and the joint agricultural policy (GAP) of the EU and the long -running favorite of debustening. But the fight against climate change and the ongoing disappearance of essential protective agents for plants and thus food are the focus of the summer meeting of all Chamber of Agriculture President, which is currently taking place in Styria after nine years. LK Austria President Josef Moosbrugger and LK Styria President Andreas Steinegger today report on a press conference in Graz.
Moosbrugger criticizes “Financial Stew” and demands more competitive fairness
“The previous signs for the multi-year financial framework 2028-34 and the common agricultural policy after 2027 we see very critically. We do not need a ‘financial stew’ from Brussels, which each country can divide on the individual sectors. Moosbrugger and further: “We therefore decidedly reject a ‘single plan’ or ‘single finds’, which we have also made clear to the EU Commission. If it actually suggests such a’ financial stew, he is far from eaten because it ‘is more than acidic’. Forestry. “
With regard to the international trade policy, which is also in focus, Moosbrugger emphasizes: “It may not be that we Austrian farmers’ and farmers are always’ top ‘, but it is sufficient for others to be sufficient. This means that our sustainable quality products are replaced by anonymous products that are far from being comparable. Comparable standards for import products including reliable controls.
Reduction of bureaucracy instead of constantly new hurdles for family businesses
In addition, the LKÖ President calls for reduction in bureaucracy instead of continuously new hurdles for family businesses and more realism when it comes to equipment. “The constantly progressive disappearance of indispensable active ingredients to protect our harvests has now become a real problem, some plant products are no longer available from Austria. On the one hand, new approvals from the EU are needed again. On the other hand, it must be a matter of course that pesticides that can be used in other EU countries can also be used in Austria,” emphasizes Moosbrugger.
No to EU industrial emission guidelines for rural family businesses
The domestic rural family businesses operate sustainably, but from 2030 the provisions of the EU industry emission directive should apply unnecessarily. “Nobody understands that. The rural family businesses cannot be assessed according to the requirements of industrial plants. The EU industry emission directive must therefore be revised,” demands Styrian Chamber of Agriculture President Andreas Steinegger. For the rural pet owners, the industrial emission guideline means unnecessary bureaucratic harassment, combined with intolerably high costs: larger, existing stables would have to be checked again by 2030 despite the upright building permit. Or no more new stables would have to be brought up to the current technical status. Steinegger: “The situation is serious. Peasant existences and the self -supply of meat and eggs by rural family businesses are threatened – that makes us vulnerable.”
EU renovation regulations: Steinegger appeals to EU parliamentarians, on Wednesday for zero-risk classification to vote-reduce bureaucracy instead of creating new bureaucracy!
Get the forest – this is the priority goal of the Austrian Forest Act, which is strictest worldwide and consistently controlled by the forest authorities. This is also why the Austrian forest grows by around 3,600 hectares per year or 13 soccer fields per day. Nevertheless, the EU renovation regulation requires evidence that wood and wood products such as paper, furniture & co as well as cattle and soy are free of deforestation-a multi-million dollar bureaucracy effort that inhibits the entire forest/wood value chain. “Our sustainably economy forest owners unnecessarily punish with bloated bureaucracy is the completely wrong way,” the LK Styria President and LKÖ-forestry chair for Austria demands the “zero-risk countries”-a simple and practical solution. Steinegger: “With a zero-risk classification, the EU could show that it not only promises bureaucracy, but also implements it.” The environmental committee in the EU Parliament also spoke out on June 25th. Steinegger appeals to the EU parliamentarians to vote next Wednesday for the zero-risk state classification.
Contrary to many calls to doom: the forest is rich in species
The Styrian Forestry is a research forward in Europe. The multi-year forest ecological inventory in the Pichl forestry with state-of-the-art research techniques and 50 experts from home and abroad refutes the myth of species of the farm forests. President Steinegger: “Around 3,000 species have been proven-including numerous Rote list species, endemites and even proof of Styria.” So the Moravian Aselfler, a species of spider, was first occupied in Styria. The finding of the Pichler Schazen jumper, a pseudos corpion, is sensational after 80 years and the occurrence of the cave Baldachin spider, which is only available in the Ostalps worldwide. Steinegger: “The data impressively demonstrates that biodiversity and sustainable forest use are not a contradiction. Economic forests are valuable habitats.”
Climate protection, risk management and adaptation in focus
“In this extremely hot and weather-shaped summer, there are clearly measures against climate change, for the best possible risk management and the climate change adaptation in the focus. The agricultural and forestry is not only a main sector, but can also help with regional foods, renewable raw materials and energy. It is therefore important that we finally also use the energy laws and thus replacement Get progress, “said Moosbrugger, who indicates in terms of adaptation to the educational offensive” Agriculture.Klima.Fit “, in the framework of which 163 specific recommendations for action for the rural companies have been drawn up. These are to be expanded and more well known.