"Concerned interests and government services that seem to be involved in the interests but also for the inability of those responsible" to soon provide a solution to the issue of animal waste management, complains George Perdikis, President of the Movement of Ecologists - Citizens' Cooperation.
After the discussion on animal waste management in the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Mr. Perdikis said that during the session "the greatness of the government's incompetence and misunderstanding regarding the management of animal waste" unfolded once again ".
He said that it was found beyond any doubt that the way in which this issue is being dealt with by the Government and the state over time is "criminal, full of gaps and has created a lot of problems".
The President of the Ecologists' Movement said that "at the moment we may not be as endangered as we were three weeks ago" but immediately "the existing process of managing dead animals must end" which will result in the countryside being filled with dead animals because it has there is a temporary renewal that has given a completely patchwork solution, with the extension of the contract, but the problem remains ".
He spoke of "interests involved, government services that seem to be involved in the interests and inability of those in charge to provide solutions, which must be short".
Mr. Perdikis said that the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture was convened and attended by the State Aid Commissioner, Theofanis Theofanous, "to tell us that the whole program may be illegal under European state aid legislation."
Mr. Perdikis called on the Government "to be serious because the issue is very critical, it is a health issue, a livestock support issue, it is an environmental protection issue".
"We want the Gordian knot to be broken and to be broken immediately and for there to be a legal and successful management of dead animals," said the President of the Ecologists.
He said that "a good suggestion is to have two factories (animal waste management) that cover similar regions of the country, that there is no monopoly, that there is competition".
Concluding, George Perdikis wished that the rulers "find a way to deal with the crisis that has been created."
AKEL MP Evanthia Savva said that "we are embarrassed" about the burning issue of animal waste management and during the session "a huge misunderstanding was found between the state services".
As Ms. Savva said, "aspects of the issue have emerged that constitute possible illegalities based on the findings of the Auditor General and the State Aid Commissioner".
He added that "along with the waste, we are in danger of being drowned again by sloppiness and suspicious methods".
Concluding, the AKEL MP wondered whether we have a state, which called "to take care of human health and the environment, but above all let us preserve the rule of law."
Source: KYPE