At least three meetings will be held
between September and December to finalize recommendations for
Brussels by the beginning of 2025 to address the challenges of
the EU wine sector, which is increasingly exposed to "uncertain"
exports and "unpredictable harvests" attributable to "more
frequent and more severe weather events".
The High-level Group for EU wine sector policy, which was
announced by the European Commission in June, meets for the
first time on Wednesday September 11 to provide input for the
discussion on the post-2027 CAP future, a proposal on which
should arrive from the European Commission "in the summer of
2025".
Pierre Bascou, representative of the European Commission's DG
Agri, set the terms and agenda of the initiative for wine in a
meeting with MEPs of the Agriculture Committee (Agri) of the
European Parliament held on September 5.
The sector - he admitted to MEPs - "has increasingly faced
significant challenges over the past few years" on "both the
consumption and production fronts".
While the "significant drop in consumption is due to a
combination of factors", such as the consequences of the
Covid-19 pandemic or Russia's aggression in Ukraine, on the
production front the sector has been affected by "the increase
in agricultural input costs", Bascou noted.
According to estimates by the European Commission, the sector
creates around 3 million direct and indirect full-time jobs,
most of them in rural areas, and it contributes around €130
billion to the EU's GDP, including the direct and induced value
generated along the entire supply chain.
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