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| Ministry of Agriculture: Aquaculture can strengthen EU food security |
| Bratislava, 19.11.2025 |
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| The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) of the Slovak Republic sees aquaculture as a sector that has the potential to strengthen EU food security, contribute to sustainable production of quality food and to the development of rural areas. This was stated on Tuesday by the MARD communication department after Monday's (17.11.) meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) in Brussels.
The European Commission was represented by Commissioner Christophe Hansen (Agriculture and Food), Olivér Várhelyi (Animal Health and Welfare) and Costas Kadis (Fish and Oceans). The Slovak delegation was led by State Secretary of the MARD, Vladimír Vnuk.
Slovakia, on behalf of the Czech Republic, Croatia and Hungary, called for the need to ensure adequate support for the aquaculture sector from the future multiannual financial framework 2028-2034. Financing aquaculture only from the guaranteed envelope for the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is not enough, and therefore Slovakia requested to also focus on the free part of the allocation of the National and Regional Partnership Plan (NRPP).
It also pointed out the need to set clear conditions for supporting aquaculture and processing its products and ensure coherence between the proposals related to the NRPP with future CFP support. Slovakia's initiative was supported by 19 countries in the discussion.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture is concerned about the drastic reduction in the allocation for fisheries and aquaculture, as such a step will have serious impacts on the development of the sector, endangering its competitiveness, innovation capacity and export potential. Ultimately, it will weaken our common food self-sufficiency, at a time when the stability of food supplies and production is more important than ever for the EU, the MPRV noted.
A bilateral meeting between the State Secretary of the MPRV, Vladimir Vnuk, and the Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food, Lozana Vasileva, took place within the framework of the AGRIFISH session, following a series of Slovak negotiations aimed at finding allies in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and in shaping a common approach to the agreement with Ukraine. Slovakia and Bulgaria agreed within the CAP on the need to maintain an independent, two-pillar CAP with a sufficient budget.odkaz na stránku |
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