📋 Tender Overview
The consultation on the future support plan for the agricultural sector and rural areas which will end on November 18 2021 lacks provisions intended to prevent grievances for harvest workers.There is no indication of how the minimum labor law standards for harvest workers proposed by the EU are to be implemented. This social conditionality stipulates that compliance with certain labor and social rights should be linked to agricultural subsidies. This is also criticized by 51 NGOs which in this context find gross failures in environmental and climate protection.Due to massive grievances that harvest workers are exposed to the European Parliament had demanded effective conditions for compliance with rights for harvest workers when awarding agricultural subsidies to farms. Due to the stubborn rejection on the part of the agriculture ministers only a minimal consensus remained anyway which provides for compliance with certain EU directives and no additional controls.It is a bad compromise that was negotiated at EU level an already effective measure against the miserable working conditions of the people who harvest our fruits and vegetables. At least these minimum requirements should be met quickly explains the agricultural policy expert Maria Burgstaller. According to the EU regulation these minimum requirements must be implemented by 2023 or by 2025 at the latest. In the present draft of the agricultural subsidies however there are no measures at all that should be implemented in Austria.
