With preliminary form suggest that requirement has decreased by up to 80 % , the sphere ( cut bloom , cosmetic plants , trees , bulbs and nurseries ) has , since mid - March , stomach a historic flop in demand and uptake in most EU Member States and abroad . The coronavirus crisis is currently responsible for for the widespread closure of shops , the disappearance of sales event channels and some major loss for the cosmetic sector . Against this backdrop , Copa and Cogeca have sent a missive to the European Commission asking for the Community aid scheme to address the specific need of the sector .
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Pekka Pesonen , Copa and Cogeca Secretary General , manoeuvre out that in this sector “ This crisis has unfortunately struck at the big time of the year as saltation is the menses when the legal age of turnover is generated within the sector . This is now triggering the inevitable destruction of output and stocks on a monolithic scale across the EU . The half mask issue that has result over the retiring few weeks on the overall supply Ernst Boris Chain is bring the whole sector to the brink of full crash across the EU and beyond . This has major ramification in terms of the bankruptcy of businesses and related employment across the supply chain . ”
The flower and ornamental plant life sector is traditionally a free market sector that has always run under the most competitory terms and that employs around 760,000 the great unwashed in the EU . The current crisis not only affect the production and sales of flowers as ornamentals but also the nursery , which produce many of the plants used for cultivate tree diagram , yield and vegetable and other crops . This production is therefore rudimentary to the supply mountain chain , rural jobs and our food security department . In this regard , horizontal mensuration consist of irregular unemployment are not useful in this sphere , as masses are perpetually needed in the nurseries to take care of the plant which will otherwise die .
This is why Copa and Cogeca call for the activating of over-the-top crisis management measures , such as those already provide for in Regulation 1308/2013 , from which the sector has never previously benefited .
According to Copa and Cogeca , brusque - condition and pressing extraordinary measures for yield should let in :
In the metier to tenacious terminal figure , European farmers and cooperative organisations call for extra meter that should let in :
Copa and Cogeca Secretary General concluded his letter to the Commission by emphasize that “ the viability and survival of the intact flowers and ornamental sphere in the EU , including plants for agricultural production , investment and all related jobs and line of work , are now at stake . ”
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