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"Mr President, the Commission is proposing changes to trade arrangements for processed agricultural products. The purpose is to end subsidies and restrict them by means of a certificate. There are two fundamental courses of development behind this: on the one hand, the pressures caused by the liberalisation of world trade on reducing export aid and, on the other, the EU’s internal budgetary pressures mainly associated with external relations. The food processing chain and, ultimately, the farmers, are going to foot this bill. Already the market situation is putting immense pressure on the European producer. In addition, costs are rising thanks, for example, to higher fuel prices and increasing environmental and other obligations. Profitability in production is shaky, and this rather pointedly begs the question as to whether agricultural production in Europe makes sense any longer.
Our committee and the European Liberal Democrats believe that the EU must safeguard the profitability of the production chain. The Commission is proposing selective deterioration. We are, however, in a position of constraint. It may be necessary to act in this way, but certain principles have to be adhered to in this issue. The changes must take account of small companies active in this sector of industry. For example, in the country I represent large export companies simply cannot exist, owing to the country’s small population. There should be some flexibility in setting the restrictions in respect of export aid procedures. For that reason, the wording of Amendment No 8 is justified. It provides a degree of flexibility, especially for small companies.
I would also like to make the comment that by replacing cuts in export aid with inward processing and additional procedures the effects will be unevenly spread, in that a heavy burden will fall on the remoter EU countries in terms of transport costs. For that reason I agree with the rapporteur that, in the long run, these procedures will not work. This is a question of temporary solutions only. Our group supports the committee’s amendments."@en1
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