The Government delegate to the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín Aguirre, held a working meeting this morning with the head of the Agriculture and Fisheries Area of the Government Delegation, María del Mar Pila Pascual, who in the first eight months of the year carried out around 30,000 health checks on live animals and products of animal and plant origin, increasing its activity more than 10% compared to last year.
It acts as a sanitary filter at the border of live animals, products of animal origin not intended for human consumption and products destined for animal feed, both in import regime, adding in export the products of animal origin destined for human consumption and phytosanitary control in plant products, both in import regime and in export regime, is carried out by the Plant Health and Animal Health Services of the Area at the Border Control Post of the Barajas airport.
In addition, it has also issued more than 2500 certificates of pets moving to non-Community countries, which is another of its competences along with, among others, the collaboration with the Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FEGA) in the management of public aid or the control of courses taught within multiregional training programs aimed at professionals in the rural environment or activities to improve the competitiveness and modernization of Agri-Food Cooperatives subsidized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.