The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the Canary Islands Institute of Agri-Food Quality (ICCA), has published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC n.º 269) of Friday, December 31, 2021, the call for POSEI aid for the transformation and bottling of wines with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) produced in the Canary Islands and the improvement of competitiveness in the foreign marketing of wines with PDO of the 2021 campaign.
Line 1.6 “Aid for the transformation and bottling of wines with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) produced in the Canary Islands” contemplates an amount of 0.24 euro cents per liter of wine protected by any of the PDOs of the Islands. The objective is to compensate for the additional costs derived from production in ultra-peripheral regions that entail additional burdens in terms of logistics and supplies from abroad.
Action 1.7 “Improvement of competitiveness in the foreign marketing of wines with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) of the Canary Islands” sets 0.70 euro cents per liter of wine marketed in markets outside the archipelago in 2021. In this way, it is intended to boost competitiveness, alleviating the costs derived from the remote situation in the marketing of wine outside the Canary Islands.
Applications to take advantage of this call will be submitted from January 1 to 31, 2022, both inclusive, adjusted to the models that appear in the electronic headquarters of the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.
The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alicia Vanoostende, points out that these aids, which were used by 187 applicants in the previous call, “contribute to mitigating the added costs borne by the Canarian wineries when producing in an ultra-peripheral territory, as well as providing them with the necessary tools to make them more competitive in foreign trade.”
