Milk crisis: negotiations suspended again Friday night – Boursorama

Farmers picnic before a Lactalis production site they block access to Changé (Mayenne), August 26, 2016 (AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER)

picnic farmers before a Lactalis production site they block access to Changé (Mayenne) on August 26, 2016 (AFP / JEAN FRANCOIS MONIER)

Without making statements, negotiators went to report on the content of discussions with protesters blocking since Monday at a nearby roundabout night of a production site Lactalis, in the municipality of Changed, limits of Laval. After this report, the negotiators could speak to the press.

Furthermore, the Court of Laval decided Friday night to transform into legal decision an agreement in force since 5:00 p.m. between Lactalis and FDSEA (departmental Federation of farmers’ unions) Mayenne, planning to let out trucks production site during the period of negotiations, AFP Christiane Lambert, Vice President of the FNSEA.

Lactalis had appointed Friday morning, the regional federations (FRSEA) of Normandy, Brittany and the Loire, whose members were blocking access to the site since the beginning of the movement, obstruction of freedom of movement.

Serge Moly, director of the group Lactalis reaches the prefecture of Mayenne to negotiate with farmers, August 26, 2016 in Laval (AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER)

since vehicles can now enter and out of the site, so there is more interference with freedom of movement, explained Ms. Lambert substance. This agreement is valid until Tuesday morning. These inputs and outputs are another access from the factory that located near the roundabout where protesters are installed.

A first round of negotiations took place for 11 hours without success in Paris, Thursday night and early Friday morning.

The aim of the discussions revived late Friday day Laval is trying to find a way out of the conflict on the price that opposes milk giant french producers.

“what we expect is a way for an agreement that would better live this crisis that we face today and to better understand the future, “said before entering the negotiation Sébastien Amand, vice president of the Organization of Normandy Centre producers (OPNC).

“There is the wish of all producers it (the negotiations, ed) succeed,” he he said, “if we are there, is that we have a hope.”

Francis Amand mediator speaks to reporters after the negotiations between milk producers’ representatives and those of the food group Lactalis, the Maison du Lait in Paris August 25, 2016 (AFP / MATTHEW ALEXANDER)

This meeting was held “in the same format as the Paris meeting, but without the mediator” of agricultural trade relations, Francis Amand, who was present in Paris, had been learned from the prefecture.

the Lactalis group announced Friday morning a higher price of 15 euros milk to 1 September, or about 271 euros per tonne, despite the failure of negotiations, a step deemed insufficient by the unions .

the spokesman of the Lactalis group, Michel Nalet, said Friday morning that the proposal Lactalis was intended to “demonstrate that we continue to move forward and negotiate.”

The proposal was coldly received by agricultural unions that block since Monday evening Lactalis factory near Laval

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Friday noon forty farmers continued to occupy the roundabout giving access to the factory, renamed the roundabout the “shame of milk”.

Stéphane Le Foll will present on Tuesday, the french plan to control milk production (AFP / STEPHANE dE SAKUTIN)

“to go is to win, if allowed access to the company, she won forever,” he told AFP Pascal Clément, President of the section dairy regional Federation of agricultural Workers (FRSEA) the great West.

as for 15 euros more proposed by Lactalis, “It is clear that the offer can be greatly improved,”-t- he said.

At Lactalis factory, guard towers are already planned until Monday.

after the first negotiations, the mediator had said he had made a “proposal last chance to 280 euros for 1,000 liters” for the last five months of 2016 compared to a current price of about 257, bringing the increase to 23 euros, an offer Lactalis had accepted but rejected by the producer representatives.

the Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll had Friday urged stakeholders to “resume as soon as the negotiations”.

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