The Interprofessionals and the FEMP sign a new agreement to strengthen their collaboration and promote the inclusion of the Red Municipal Ganadero-Cárnica as one of the municipalist networks framed in the Federation that brings together Local Entities from all over Spain, after the celebration of the XIII Plenary of the FEMP
The Network takes a qualitative leap to give visibility to the role of municipalities in the development of the sector and promote public-private collaboration and dialogue between the livestock-meat sector and local entities
May 9, 2023. The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and the six Interprofessional Organizations of the meat sector (OIAS) have given new impetus to the collaboration launched in 2021 with the signing of a new agreement for, once the XIII Plenary of the FEMP, include the Livestock-Meat Municipal Network as a new municipal network framed in the FEMP, and to which its associated Local Entities may adhere: Thus, the basic purpose of this new agreement is to establish the basic operating structure of the which will be a future FEMP Network, from the Plenary session in September.
The agreement has been signed at the FEMP headquarters by its general secretary, Carlos Daniel Casares, and the representatives of the OIAS: Raúl García (President of ASICI), Jordi Montfort (General Secretary of AVIANZA), Javier Gómez (President of INTERCUN ), José Friguls (Treasurer of INTEROVIC), Alberto Herranz (Director of INTERPORC) and Francisco Javier López (Director of PROVACUNO).
The Municipal Livestock-Meat Network is an initiative launched by the Interprofessionals to work jointly with the Spanish municipalities that have a significant presence of livestock and industrial activities in their territory, and in June 2021 the sector representatives and the FEMP They signed a Framework Agreement by which the collaborative work for its development began.
With the new framework signed now, the Network takes a qualitative leap to strengthen its mission of giving visibility to the role of municipalities in the development of the sector, as well as promoting public-private collaboration and dialogue between the livestock-meat sector and the local entities, developing actions or strategies for the development and promotion of the sector.
The Network constitutes a space for collaboration to face common challenges and share information, identifying challenges, needs and experiences that stimulate activity in the rural world and in municipalities throughout the territory and recognizing the important support of municipalities in the development of the livestock chain activity. In fact, the joint work carried out by companies and municipalities has allowed the livestock-meat chain to be one of the most important economic engines in the country for some time and to act as an important backbone agent for Rural Spain.
In the deployment of the livestock-meat activity, the municipalities play a fundamental role. With their support, the chain’s work has come to contribute, according to the latest data, a total of 47,000 million euros to the national GDP. The Municipal Livestock-Meat Network was born precisely with the purpose of recognizing this important synergy, and the essential work and support of the municipalities of our country.
Joint work for livestock, meat and the development of rural Spain
In January of this year, the Red Municipal Ganadero-Cárnica already held the first meeting of mayors and councilors of its affiliated municipalities in Madrid, which was attended by about twenty heads of town halls from Catalonia, Aragon, Castilla y León, Andalucía, Castilla -La Mancha and Murcia. At the meeting, the lines of work for 2023 and the Declaration of the Network were presented, with its founding objectives to develop this initiative as the best instrument to defend and promote the shared interests between the livestock-meat chain and the local entities in which their activities settle.