MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday, at the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, a Royal Decree that establishes the regulatory bases for the new Viticultural Sector Intervention (ISV) within the framework of application of the new Common Agricultural Policy (PAC ) which has a budget of 202.1 million euros per year between 2023 and 2027.
With the approval of this legislative text, the Government establishes the basic national regulations for aid to the wine sector, in which the types of intervention are adapted to the environmental demands and adaptation to climate change established by the new CAP.
The Government spokesperson and Minister for Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, has highlighted the "great economic importance" of the wine sector in Spain, as well as its importance when establishing population in the territory. "The Spanish wine sector generates half a million jobs, it is the third largest producer in the world and the second largest exporting country", she recalled at the press conference after the Council of Ministers.
Rodríguez pointed out that the purpose of this sectoral intervention will be to meet the needs detected in the wine sector in Spain, increase its competitiveness, and adapt it to the new objectives of the CAP in terms of combating climate change, improving the environment and sustainability.
In this way, the types of intervention chosen by Spain to meet the specific objectives for the wine sector are the restructuring and reconversion of vineyards, tangible and intangible investments in processing facilities and wine infrastructure, as well as in structures and instruments marketing.
The green harvest, the distillation of vinification by-products and the promotion and communication activities in third countries are also included.
From the Ministry led by Luis Planas, they have recalled that this sector needs to promote its commercialization and increase its added value, for which the effort is focused on promotion interventions in third countries and on support for investments in infrastructures (wineries).
In addition, the investment interventions, distillation of by-products and restructuring and conversion of vineyards pursue more sustainable production models in accordance with the general objectives of the CAP.
While sectoral intervention provides for the possibility of resorting, when necessary, to green harvesting as a tool for action in exceptional cases in the face of possible situations of imbalance between supply and demand.
In this way, Spain responds with this Viticultural Sectoral Intervention to the new requirements of the CAP, which establish a percentage of obligatory spending for environmental actions of at least 5% of its budget.
The first two years of application of the ISV will be carried out in parallel with the operations and programs that are in execution and that were approved within the framework of the National Support Program for the Wine Sector (Pasve) 2019-23 before December 31, 2022 and that can be executed and paid up to October 15, 2025.
