The agricultural producers could be exempted from income tax on condition that this tax is reinvested in agriculture. A bill to this effect was agreed in a meeting of the special commission for drafting legislative amendments to support the farmers, which are to be passed by the legislative body, IPN reports.

Alexandru Slusari, head of the Union of Agricultural Producers Associations “UniAgroProtect”, has told IPN that this is the first problem of those highlighted earlier by the farmers that is being dealt with. “No progress has been made in agreeing a solution for increasing the agricultural subsidies. The problem of the import of oil products hasn’t been yet discussed. Some promises were made as regards lending to farmers. Our demand to reduce the VAT for meat producers was also discussed a lot. There are yet many discrepancies over this issue. Those from the Ministry of Finance asked for a pause of several days for taking a decision,” he stated.

The chairman of “UniAgroProtect” does not think that this commission will manage to deal with farmers’ demands by July 1. “We cannot say that the special commission is pretending to be working, but things go very slowly. If the demands are not satisfied by July 1, we will take a decision as to the protests,” he stated.

The special commission for drafting legislative amendments to support the farmers was set up on the initiative of Head of Parliament Andrian Candu, following the protests mounted by farmers.