Baltic states together with Finland wrote a letter to the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Cioloș encouraging the Commission to declare the Baltic States and Finland as an area where specific measures are needed to compensate farmers’ exceptional losses.
Boost for promotion of EU agricultural products as medium-term response to Russian embargo
The Commission has today confirmed its intention to provide an additional €30 million of EU funding for CAP promotion programmes starting in 2015, on top of the €60 million that is foreseen annually in the CAP budget. As these schemes are co-funded, this change is likely to mean an additional 60 million EURO for promotion measures. Aimed at alleviating the impact of the Russian measures against certain EU agricultural products, this additional effort will start with the promotion programmes that need to be submitted by the end of September.
Baltic States Agricultural Organizations’ Open Letter to EU Commissioner for Agriculture D. Ciolos
Following Russia’s recent import ban on certain agriculture and food products from EU countries, the agricultural organisations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would like to express their concerns about the serious consequences these sanctions will have on the agriculture and food production sectors of the Baltic States.