Strengthening preventive measures
against the effects of increasingly frequent extreme weather
events and ensuring producers' access to insurance schemes are
two of the key points that will feature in the final
recommendations of the EU high-level group on wine. The group
met on Friday in Brussels for the third round of talks before
adopting the text that will contribute to reflections on the
future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2027.
At the heart of the meeting was the draft recommendations,
which, according to a spokesperson for the EU executive, were
met with "broad approval" from representatives of member states.
The focus is on policy measures to manage the current and future
productive potential of the sector, "taking into account a
structural decline in wine demand" in Europe, which also affects
Italy.
Member states also emphasized the importance of reinforcing
preventive measures, adaptation strategies, and producers'
access to insurance schemes in response to increasingly frequent
extreme weather events, "including better use of measures within
national support programs already available to the sector." The
draft recommendations will be revised in the coming days, with
the goal of approving the text and presenting it to industry
representatives at the final meeting scheduled for December 16.
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