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Daniel Barnier, the prefect of Lot-et-Garonne, wishes to actively continue the dialogue with CR 47. The two parties met yesterday for 5 hours.
“At the end of an interview lasting more than 5 hours with the prefect, the departmental director of territories and the departmental director of employment, work, solidarity and population protection, representatives of the Rural Coordination of Lot-et-Garonne (CR 47) refused to leave the prefecture and had to be escorted by the police, without incident. The prefecture thus summarizes the outing of Karine Duc and José Pérez yesterday in Agen. At that time, a few projectiles, including a barrier, flew towards the police. The co-presidents felt they had been “discarded like trash!”
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Beyond this incident which almost ignited the powder, the prefect Daniel Barnier, prefect of Lot-et-Garonne, considers that this meeting allowed the farmers “to recall their demands which mainly relate to the overtransposition of standards European Unions, the reduction of employer contributions and the cost of energy.
He, he said, returned to all the agricultural support measures implemented at the national and departmental level since the start of the year. He also recalled the comments of the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty regarding the overtransposition of standards.
Maintain dialogue
Daniel Barnier reports having announced “the new exemptions from the requirements of good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) 6 and 7 this fall, granted very recently by the General Directorate of Economic and Environmental Performance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and the Forest. They allow exemptions from the obligation to cover soils in winter and postpone the obligation for crop rotation until December 1st.
Since his arrival in the department, he has maintained “an ongoing dialogue with all representatives of the different agricultural sectors”. He wishes “to be able to actively pursue it”.
