Legislative intervention to reintegrate farmers to the “GAIA” program and detoxification of the program from arrears, 11 MPs request SYRIZAwith a question submitted to Parliament and addressing it to the Ministers of Rural Development and Food and Environment and Energy.
MPs point out that while the GAIA integration program is independent of the arrears of arrears created up to 31-12-2023, and in the event of non-payment of three regulated installments, the farmer is dismissed only by the debt settlement program and not by the GAIA program, which are reported, They relate to the GAIA program, due to overdue accounts born in 2024.
Further, they say that when the farmers come to the provider to settle – regulate the debts of 2024 to PPC, they receive the information that they have lost the integration of the GAIA program, which cannot be returned.
“There must be legislative intervention in favor of farmers, in such a way that the GAIA program will fulfill the long -term purposes for which it has been implemented,” MPs, led by Vassilis Kokkalis, said:
-The continuation of integration into the program does not depend on any debts, let alone when they are created in the current year,
-They of all overdue debts to be subject to the provider’s arrangement or repayment and redemption and
-To reconcile the farmers in the GAIA program whose contracts with the provider were reported due to current debts of 2024.
MPs point out that the cultivation period begins immediately, which means that the cost of agricultural current will affect agricultural production and recall that the GAIA program relates to a political forecast aimed at long -term support of farmers and reduce production costs to provide low prices.