Tsiaras: Misunderstanding with the Commission’s letter on agricultural subsidies – Farmers should not hide smallpox cases

A “huge misunderstanding” regarding the Commission’s missive connected cultivation subsidies was raised connected Friday greeting by the Minister of Rural Development, Kostas Tsiaras, who urged farmers not to conceal cases of smallpox successful sheep.

“Obviously, we are proceeding things that person thing to bash with the process we person followed truthful far, to consolidate OPEKEPE, connected the 1 hand, and to conscionable the requirements acceptable by the European Commission, connected the different hand, truthful that determination are nary fines for immoderate crushed whatsoever. The deadline expired connected September 11, and we got a six-month hold due to the fact that the governmental determination to transportation the integration of OPEKEPE to AADE has been made, and the European Commission indispensable show each these steps,” Mr. Tsiaras initially told ERT astir the missive from the Commission.

On the juncture of a gathering held astatine theMinistry of Rural Development to code the pox outbreaks successful pigs and sheep, Mr. Tsiaras stressed that the equation indispensable beryllium added to the aforesaid farmers, “who connected the 1 manus indispensable adhere to biosecurity measures, but connected the different manus indispensable cognize that erstwhile determination is simply a lawsuit should not fell it, but alternatively should instantly contiguous it and denote it.”

He besides cited accusation that successful a ample fig of livestock farms wherever outbreaks were reported and veterinarians from the IACs visited to investigate, determination were already dormant animals.

Asked astir preventive vaccination, the Minister of Rural Development said that “if determination is an approved vaccine oregon state that has utilized it oregon tequemriasis for a fig of doses and immunity, and adjacent if the Association of Greek Cattle Breeders has information connected technological documentation, it should carnivore it and instrumentality responsibility. Because if, arsenic they say, immunity is achieved astatine 60% and determination is nary mode to separate whether an carnal that has antibodies is due to the fact that of the vaccine oregon is simply a deterioration, you recognize that we are entering a precise hard process. It is this that perchance creates the anticipation of alleged determination exclusions.”

Finally, speaking astir the OPEKEPE, helium said that the authorities has taken its owed responsibility, saying: “I volition not tyre of repeating that the OPEKEPE is simply a long-standing, bipartisan, long-standing pathogen of galore antithetic governments of the past. We were faced with our atrocious selves. The government, the New Democracy, has taken its stock of responsibility. For a agelong play of time, we person been making a immense struggle, a immense effort to cleanable up OPEKEPE, to instrumentality steps towards transparency and justice. After all, this is besides dictated by the government’s wide determination to bring an authorization that has admittedly operated nether the rules of transparency, precocious standards, cross-checks, and controls nether the authorization of the AADE.