Italy Olive Oil and CIA Italian Farmers, a few days after the positive feedback from the national olive oil table, returns to the olive oil issue and does so from a 360-degree perspective, starting from a basic question. We expressed appreciation for the government’s commitments to strengthen controls. However, as required by EU regulations, it is essential that private storage of oil be permitted.Said Gennaro Sicolo, president of Italia Olivicola and national vice president of CIA Agricoltori Italiani.
Gennaro Sicolo
The world of Italian olive oil needs stability and tranquility during the olive oil campaign: Italia Olivicola and CIA, therefore, ask the government to evaluate the activation of market regulatory tools. “The tensions that have been recorded in recent weeks are damaging the sector”, adds Sicolo. The sector needs calm and a secure economic and financial outlook at a time of peak production. The regulatory tools to ensure an orderly olive oil season exist and must be implemented..
Article 167a of Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council No. 1308/2013 establishes that, in order to improve and stabilize the functioning of the common market for olive oils and the olives from which they are derived, producer Member States may establish marketing standards to regulate supply. “The temporary withdrawal from the market of quantities of national extra virgin olive oil – Sicolo continues – It can prevent disruptions and ensure that trade flows are maintained orderly and smoothly, to the benefit of producers and consumers.”
Italia Olivicola has long been calling for emergency measures to be implemented, along with tools to ensure that the olive oil production sector is not financially strangled during the olive oil season, disrupting the market and disorienting national and international consumers. “In this regard, I would like to express my applause and thanks to the ICQRF Puglia-Basilicata, the Guardia di Finanza and the Customs Agency for theA major operation between the port of Bari and the province of Lecce resulted in the seizure of 14 liters of untraceable extra virgin olive oil.Today we have to think about emergency measures – concludes Sicolo – But looking ahead, we’re already thinking about how to protect our farmers’ incomes from sharp market and price fluctuations, thus protecting the very image of green gold, the flagship of Made in Italy.”
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