The COVID-19 pandemic has heavy impacted and disrupted the EU Flower and Live Plants sphere and market place since early March 2020 . In an unprecedented use , the four organisations symbolise the various segments of the sector in the EU ( Union Fleurs , ENA , AREFLH and Copa - Cogeca ) , have unite force out and mobilised their phallus governance across EU Member States to garner integrated inputs to measure the exact impact of COVID-19 on the sector during the vizor of the crisis in March and April 2020 . A amount of 33 contributions from 17 EU nation were take in during the month of May .
guess economic release from COVID-19 - EU blossom & live plants sector ( March & April 2020 ) . ( Clickherefor the hypertrophied picture )
This Survey Report provides a first measurement of the literal economical wallop of COVID-19 on the EU flower & unrecorded plants sphere at big . Losses report for the sphere across the EU attain an estimated total of 4.12 billion EUR in March and April 2020 in 17 EU countries across the 4 sub - sector cut efflorescence , Mary Jane works , bulbs and glasshouse stemma , accounting for close to 10 % of the one-year full EU market value . This first estimate clear demonstrates the brutish impact that the pandemic and lockdown measures implemented across the EU have had on the sector during the prime of the Spring season . These losses will never be recovered and will have to be absorb by the thousands of companies of the flower & live plant sphere in the EU . match with the lack of a uniform and coordinated reply so far by interior governments across the EU , this furtherreinforces the motivation for a more meaningful and direct EU financial support to the sector .
The 4 organisations have brought this strong message to the European Commission ’s DG Agriculture Department during a coming together with the Deputy Director General last week . Building on the primal takeaways from the Survey Report , the sector representative stressed how the absence so far of financial funding at EU level has not assure thebest status for the viability of output and grocery store structures across the EU give-up the ghost forwards . “ As the food market situation is overall far from being yet normalise despite a re - start of activities in most EU countries since May , linear perspective remain uncertain for the sphere across the EU . A coordinated fiscal support at EU tier extend to be actively telephone for , also to preserve the integrity of the EU Single Market and batten a honest operating environs across the EU without risking any distortions of competition on the food market ” pep up the sector representatives .
Financial support measures for the sector across the EU . As you could see , only in the Netherlands , France and Greece , sphere specific support was given . In the bulk of the other countries , generic support measures were given.(Clickherefor the magnified delineation )
The European Commission , despite clearly acknowledging that the EU flower & live plant sector has been the agricultural sector most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis , encouraged the sphere to seek support via home tier from the outgoing Next Generation EU fund of 750 billion EUR - indicate that the EU agricultural budgetitself can not be mobilise to provide direct supporting to this sector or any other agricultural sectors . sphere voice also play up the need for a dedicated budget for the forwarding of flowers and live industrial plant under the EU Promotion scheme and phone for investing in better sector statistic at EU level on product , barter and ingestion to build a more refined corporate intelligence agency of the sector . A stocktaking coming together has been agree with the European Commission for the goal of the year to look back the situation of the sector with the full yr 2020 in perspective .
Source : Union Fleurs , ENA , AREFLH and Copa - Cogeca
