EU Agricultural commissioner Dacian Ciolos says Romanian agriculture suffers because of the frequent changes made on political criteria. Elsewhere in the news, secret waste depot is being built in South-East Romania. Last but not least, Romanian Cantacuzino Institute has been issued a final warning by the Health Ministry to fix the deficiencies on the vaccines production lines by April 15.
EU Agricultural commissioner Romanian Dacian Ciolos says Romanian agriculture suffers because of the frequent changes made on political criteria, Adevarul reads. A few days ago, Ciolos sent a letter to the authorities in Bucharest, asking them to fix the deficiencies in granting European subventions to Romanian farmers. According to him, he met with the situation during 2007 - 2008 as Agriculture minister in Romania. During his mandate for the EU, Ciolos has to prepare the Common Agricultural Policy reform, one of the most delicate and ambitious projects at a community level.
Cilos told Adevarul that the Romanian Payment Agencies, which have been set-up in haste to meet the EU accession standards, improved their performance, but in agriculture the rate of errors addressing farmer's request is still high compared with the EU average 2%. In Romania, Bulgaria and in Greece, the rate is above 10%. Maps need to be updated and the time span between controls in the territory and payments needs to be shorter. In Romania, Ciolos says that managers have to bee designated according to their expertise and management skills before political agenda.
Asked about his strategy for Romania, a country that does not work 30-40% of its agricultural land but imports 70% of its food, Dacian Ciolos says that the farmers can't always sell what they produces because it cannot offer a competitive price. He indicates that the farmer selling the hypermarket 200kg of potat
