The Green Pact European is a package of political initiatives whose aim is to situate to the EU on the way to an ecological transition, with the aim last to reach the climatic neutrality of here to 2050. In search of a circular economy and all this framed in the Law of the Climate, the European Union in the draft of this law has described to the essential oils of lavender or lavandín like "toxic products", something that has not liked at all to which devote to the crop of this plant. The controversy was served, and the first in pronouncing were the National Association Interprofesional of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants (ANIPAM) in February of this same year, his president asked tranquility in front of the uncertainty that this generated: "there are not reasons for the alarm. We go to be very attentive, go to elaborate a technical dossier that endorse our thesis, produce nature and health, is an essential oil used from 3.000 years ago by the Humanity. It can not doubt of his toxicity neither of his salubridad, does not have it. They are profits for the health of the people." As it collected in Europe Press.
The agriculturalists put the cry in the sky when they think that somebody can even think that the lavender can be considered like a toxic substance and the repercussions in matter of economy and of employment that this can ocasionar in Spain. María Pedernal, signalled does few days in Five Days, the incongruence by part of the European Union in the draft of the document: they want to bet by a sustainable agriculture and of vicinity, far of exports and imports, but the lavender oil does not have fit in him: "The fact to consider an essential oil, that obtains of the plant by the method of pressing of natural way, with steam of water, like a chemical product does not have any logic, especially because the European Pact in another section speaks of the agriculture of vicinity, as new efficient and sustainable engine of the environment".
One of the zones in which it would affect deeply this measure would be in Guadalajara. In this zone of Castilla de la Mancha, finds The Alcarría, the main producing of essence of lavender of Spain, specifically in Brihuega, Almadrones or Cogollor, where concentrate more than 2.000 hectares devoted to the queen of the aromatic. Thus, this subject has in vilo to these three villages from does time put that the crop of the lavender has turned into one of his main activities. As it explains in The Spanish, Juan José of Lope, director of Alcarría Flora and one of the main producers of the zone, "the new normative, at present on the table, describes that the essential oils of lavender are chemical products and considers that they would have to carry the label of toxic", by what "could forbid his use for perfumes, cosmetics and other products manufactured at present"