The neighboring country is committed to protect the free movement of goods and the security of the Spanish stores in French territory. Catalan farmers had threatened to cut of the AP-7 motorway in La Jonquera border to protest the assault on their trucks. The Minister of environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, Rosa Aguilar, said this Saturday that France has acquired the firm commitment of ensuring freedom of movement and security of Spanish lorries in Gallic territory, as well as to reinforce the presence of gendarmes in Spanish stores in the neighboring country. After maintaining this morning a telephone conversation with the French Minister of agriculture, Bruno Le Maire, Aguilar pointed out that the French Government, in addition to deplore acts of violence against Spanish lorries, has given a first very important step to ensure the storage and transit of Spanish fruit and vegetable products in France. There is a firm commitment of the Government French and the gendarmerie redouble efforts and ctive and ensure the free movement of goods, ensure the safety of transport and guarantee security in Spanish stores, said the Minister, who said have raised strong complaints from Spain to his French counterpart.Not may be goods that are pulling, is threatening the market within the framework of the European Union and is, through violent acts, preventing that a normal transport of fruit and vegetables Spanish has while gendarmes look for another side, he said.

In their conversation, Aguilar and his French counterpart also pledged to jointly design a proposal to be presented in September to the European Commission to delve into the regulation of the European fruit and vegetable market from next week. Don’t have enough and sufficient market regulation mechanisms, ctive and effective to prevent that the situation the farmers, who are selling the harvests of some fruit – like peach and Nectarine – below cost, recalled the Minister end up paying for it. Therefore France and Spain are raised both the request for aid and the establishment of mechanisms to intervene and act in terms of storage, what would prevent an abrupt fall in the prices of fruit. Thanks to the requests of Spain, France and Italy, the European Commission proposed on July 28 that aid for the withdrawal of the peach and Nectarine be increased retroactively to compensate for the problem of that face these fruits and prices that have triggered the actions of French farmers against Spanish products. Aguilar also expressed his hope that been implemented already and end point to the escalation of attacks on Spanish lorries and there is no situation more than regrettable. I am fully confident our farmers and trust that you will know expect to see results that has given the work we’ve been doing for security to be full for our goods, so our trucks to circulate for France and for our stores, said Aguilar. The Minister thus called calm Catalan farmers announced that they will respond to the recent attacks on Spanish trucks with the cutting of the AP-7 motorway at the border of La Jonquera (Girona), in late August, while the national agricultural sector in block reported that it was studying other measures of boycott against products and Gallic economic interests. Source of the news: France undertakes to ensure the security of Spanish goods