On the issue of OPECEPE The Minister of Rural Development was placed in detail, Costas Tsiaraswho was hosted Monday morning (26/5) on his TV SKAI.

“OPECEPE’s problems have been recorded from the first day this organization operates. Why are these problems recorded? Because there were gaps in the whole process provided for, with the aim of properly paying European resources to the beneficiary producers of farmers farmers ‘,’ The minister initially mentioned.

“The point is that all these years these pathogens, because OPEKEPE had to continue operating in a specific way, were not treated for different reasons. For example, for the fact that OPEKEPE does not have its own information system, that the grazing plans, the so -called pasture maps were not completed, that there are no controls that are not thorough, there are vacant organic staff positions. All of these were reasons why the projected inspection had not been followed literally. But they relate to past time. “

“What I can tell you is that for about 9-10 months, in agreement with the European Commission, we are preparing an action plan together for the essential transfer of OPECEPE to another reality. Be an organization that will distribute European resources with absolute transparency and justice. Personally I have launched developments. We are already in the process of completing the auction issues for pasture maps. Already in agreement with the Ministry of Labor, we will have 100 additional people in OPEKEPE in the summer for the intensification of the audits’, pointed out.

At the same time, Mr Tsiaras said that this year there would be no possible grazing away from his own place.

“What did the technical solution agreed with the 2015 government with the European Commission? That one could declare pastures and far from the site of the facilities. This enabled all over Greece, with no exception, to declare, for example, an island of pastures in mainland Greece. This was an “assumption” of the Commission to have this opportunity to pump European resources. “

“But that does not mean that since then we should not have completed the pasture maps. And of course this is at the top of the issues. It’s a multifactorial issue ‘, The minister ended.