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The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Spanish: Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, MAPA), is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and carrying out the government policy on agricultural, livestock and fishery resources, food industry, rural development and human food. The Ministry is responsible for assigning Veterinary Surgeons to carry out checks in regard to the issuing of REGA Licences (Registro de Explotación) a requirement for the ownership of horses on Spanish property and small holdings.
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación | |
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Formed | 31 March 1900 (as Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce and Public Works) |
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Type | Ministry |
Jurisdiction | Government of Spain |
Headquarters | Palacio de Fomento Madrid, Spain 40°24′32″N 03°41′25″W |
Employees | 8,071 (2018)[1] |
Annual budget | € 8.9 billion, 2023[2] |
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Website | www |
Specifically, it corresponds to the MAPA the preparation of State legislation on agriculture, fisheries and food; the proposal and carrying out of the general guidelines of the Government on agricultural, fisheries and food policies; the representation of Spain in the international organizations corresponding to these matters; as well as the coordination of actions, cooperation and agreement in the design and application of all policies that affect the scope of competences of the autonomous communities and the other public administrations, encouraging their participation through the cooperation bodies and instruments adequate.[3]
Unlike most ministries, this one has not any Secretariat of State and it works through three bodies with the rank of Undersecretariat: the General Secretariat for Agriculture and Food, the General Secretariat for Fisheries and the Undersecretariat of the Ministry. The head of the Department is the Minister of Agriculture, currently Mr. Luis Planas.
From the beginning of the 19th century, it is worth mentioning that under the reign of Ferdinand VII, the work of promoting agriculture were carried out by the Ministry of Finance or the field of livestock, under the authority of the Council of the Mesta.[4]
The Royal Decree of 9 November 1832 created the Secretariat of State and the Dispatch of General Development of the Realm and which had among its responsibilities the promotion of agriculture, nurseries and breeding cattle, gardening and conservation of mountains and trees or hunting and fishing. For this, it was made dependent on the Ministry the Department for Forestry Conservation and the Honorable Council of the Mesta.[5]
The agriculture responsibilities remained in the Ministry of Development for nearly one hundred years. In 1870 there was already a Directorate-General for Public Works and Agriculture.[6]
Finally, in 1900, after the split of Education, the Development Ministry was suppressed and the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry, Commerce and Public Works was created to assume the rest of the responsibilities.[7] However, five years later the Ministry of Agriculture is suppressed and the Ministry of Development recovered.[8]
With the approval of Royal Decree of 3 November 1928, the Ministry of National Economy was created, to which the Directorate-General for Agriculture was transferred along with the agricultural chambers, the agronomic council and the association of Cattle Ranchers and the services of Hygiene and Livestock Health.[citation needed]
By Decree of 16 December 1931,[9] the President of the Republic Niceto Alcalá Zamora re-created the Ministry, incorporating the Directorate-General for Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, from the Ministry of National Economy, and the Directorate-General for Mines and Fuels, the Directorate-General for Forestry, Fishing and Hunting and the Directorate-General for Livestock, from the Ministry of Development.[10]
As happened with the Ministry of Development, in 1933 the Ministry was divided into two: the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.[11] It was the first time that there was a Ministry dedicated exclusively to managing the agricultural affairs. The separation became final, except in the period from 25 September 1935 to 19 February 1936, when it assumed again the responsibilities of industry and trade.
The next big change would be made in 1981, when the ministry assumed the competencies on fisheries and was called Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food until 2008 when prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero merged it with the Environment Ministry and was renamed Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs.
The new government of Mariano Rajoy renamed the department in 2011 as Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and since 2016 as Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment. In 2018, new prime minister Pedro Sánchez created again the Ministry of Environment and this ministry recovered the 1981-2008 denomination. In 2020, the ministry lost its powers on forestry.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is organised in the following bodies:[12]
In addition, the department has four autonomous agencies:
This are the ministers since 1931, to see the ministers between 1900 and 1905 see Ministry of Development (Spain)#List of ministers.
Office name:
Ministers of Agriculture | |||
Beginning | End | Name | Party |
16 December 1931 | 12 June 1933 | Marcelino Domingo (2) | PRS |
12 June 1933 | 19 September 1933 | Marcelino Domingo (1) | PRS |
19 September 1933 | 8 October 1933 | Ramón Feced Gresa (1) | PRS |
8 October 1933 | 4 October 1934 | Cirilo del Río Rodríguez (1) | PRP |
4 October 1934 | 3 April 1935 | Manuel Giménez Fernández (1) | CEDA |
3 April 1935 | 6 May 1935 | Juan José Benayas (1) | PRP |
6 May 1935 | 25 September 1935 | Nicasio Velayos Velayos (1) | PA |
25 September 1935 | 29 October 1935 | José Martínez de Velasco (3) | PA |
29 October 1935 | 14 December 1935 | Juan Usabiaga Lasquivar (3) | PRR |
14 December 1935 | 30 December 1935 | Joaquín de Pablo-Blanco Torres (3) | PRR |
30 December 1935 | 19 February 1936 | José María Álvarez Mendizábal (3) | Independent |
19 February 1936 | 19 July 1936 | Mariano Ruiz-Funes García (1) | IR |
19 July 1936 | 19 July 1936 | Ramón Feced Gresa (1) | IR |
19 July 1936 | 4 September 1936 | Mariano Ruiz-Funes García (1) | IR |
4 September 1936 | 1 April 1939 | Vicente Uribe (1) | PCE |
Office name:
Ministers of Agriculture | |||
Beginning | End | Name | Party |
3 October 1936 | 30 January 1938 | Eufemio Olmedo (4) | |
30 January 1938 | 9 August 1939 | Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta (1) | |
9 August 1939 | 20 May 1941 | Joaquín Benjumea Burín (5) | |
20 May 1941 | 18 July 1945 | Miguel Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia (1) | |
18 July 1945 | 18 July 1951 | Carlos Rein Segura (1) | |
18 July 1951 | 25 February 1957 | Rafael Cavestany de Anduaga (1) | |
25 February 1957 | 7 July 1965 | Cirilo Cánovas García (1) | |
7 July 1965 | 29 October 1969 | Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona Moreno (1) | |
29 October 1969 | 12 December 1975 | Tomás Allende y García-Baxter (1) |
Office name:
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Government | Prime Minister (Tenure) |
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Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||||||
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Virgilio Oñate Gil (1924–1987) |
12 December 1975 |
5 July 1976 |
206 days | National Movement (UDE) |
Arias Navarro II | Carlos Arias Navarro![]() (1973–1976) |
[13] | ||
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Fernando Abril Martorell (1936–1998) |
8 July 1976 |
5 July 1977 |
362 days | National Movement (UDPE/Indep.) |
Suárez I | Adolfo Suárez![]() (1976–1981) |
[14] [15] | ||
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José Enrique Martínez Genique (born 1935) |
5 July 1977 |
25 February 1978 |
235 days | Independent | Suárez II | [16] [17] | |||
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Jaime Lamo de Espinosa (born 1941) |
25 February 1978 |
6 April 1979 |
3 years and 280 days | UCD | [18] [19] [20] [21] | ||||
6 April 1979 |
27 February 1981 |
Suárez III | ||||||||
27 February 1981 |
2 December 1981 |
Calvo-Sotelo | Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo![]() (1981–1982) | |||||||
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José Luis Álvarez (1930–2023) |
2 December 1981 |
13 September 1982 |
285 days | UCD | [22] [23] | ||||
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José Luis García Ferrero (1929–2020) |
13 September 1982 |
3 December 1982 |
81 days | Independent | [24] [25] | ||||
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Carlos Romero Herrera (born 1941) |
3 December 1982 |
26 July 1986 |
8 years and 100 days | PSOE | González I | Felipe González![]() (1982–1996) |
[26] [27] [28] [29] | ||
26 July 1986 |
7 December 1989 |
González II | ||||||||
7 December 1989 |
13 March 1991 |
González III | ||||||||
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Pedro Solbes (1942–2023) |
13 March 1991 |
14 July 1993 |
2 years and 123 days | Independent | [30] [31] | ||||
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Vicente Albero (born 1944) |
14 July 1993 |
4 May 1994 (resigned) |
294 days | PSOE | González IV | [32] [33] | |||
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Luis María Atienza (born 1957) |
6 May 1994 |
6 May 1996 |
2 years and 0 days | PSOE | [34] [35] | ||||
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Loyola de Palacio (1950–2006) |
6 May 1996 |
30 April 1999 |
2 years and 359 days | PP | Aznar I | José María Aznar![]() (1996–2004) |
[36] [37] | ||
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Jesús Posada (born 1945) |
30 April 1999 |
28 April 2000 |
364 days | PP | [38] [39] | ||||
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Miguel Arias Cañete (born 1950) |
28 April 2000 |
18 April 2004 |
3 years and 356 days | PP | Aznar II | [40] [41] | |||
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Elena Espinosa (born 1960) |
18 April 2004 |
14 April 2008 |
6 years and 186 days | PSOE | Zapatero I | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ![]() (2004–2011) |
[42] [43] [44] | ||
14 April 2008 |
21 October 2010 |
Zapatero II | ||||||||
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Rosa Aguilar (born 1957) |
21 October 2010 |
22 December 2011 |
1 year and 62 days | Independent | [45] [46] | ||||
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Miguel Arias Cañete (born 1950) |
22 December 2011 |
28 April 2014 |
2 years and 127 days | PP | Rajoy I | Mariano Rajoy![]() (2011–2018) |
[47] [48] | ||
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Isabel García Tejerina (born 1968) |
28 April 2014 |
4 November 2016 |
4 years and 40 days | PP | [49] [50] [51] | ||||
8 March 2018 |
7 June 2018 |
Rajoy II | ||||||||
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Luis Planas (born 1952) |
7 June 2018 |
13 January 2020 |
6 years and 87 days | PSOE | Sánchez I | Pedro Sánchez![]() (2018–present) |
[52] [53] [54] | ||
13 January 2020 |
21 November 2023 |
Sánchez II | ||||||||
21 November 2023 |
Incumbent | Sánchez III |
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