The Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF), allocates 720,235 euros to Navarre to promote wine in third-country markets by 2025. The Sectoral Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development, chaired by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has agreed to distribute a total of 45,841,750 euros among the autonomous communities.
The aid comes from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) to be implemented in 2025 and was launched in September 2023. With a budget for this measure of 55.59 million euros, the applications presented have finally been for a total of 45.8 million euros. For this reason, Minister Luis Planas has proposed to the regional councillors of the branch to raise the subsidy to 50%, the maximum allowed, for the 673 programs presented by the autonomous communities, which have shown their agreement with the ministerial proposal, of which 12 correspond to Navarre.
This line of promotion and communication of Spanish wines in third-country markets is included in the Wine Sector Intervention (ISV), within the framework of the National Strategic Plan of the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027.
The minister explained at the Sectoral Conference the importance of this support measure for the wine sector, because it allows to improve the knowledge of the characteristics and qualities of Spanish wines to improve their competitiveness, through the promotion of programs focused on the opening, diversification and consolidation of markets in third countries.