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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I welcomed the report as it was presented to us and I also appreciated the work of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development on the position to be assumed by Parliament with regard to both the approach taken by past regulations and the current approach adopted by the Commission and the Council.
Clearly, this does not take away the fact that there may be – and in fact are – diverging positions, as there will be tomorrow when the vote reflects this, just as there may be approaches which comprise or support calling for amendments. It would appear that the Commission and the Council's line takes little account of the methods used to grow certain products with specific characteristics in a specific social environment – as one of the Members who has just spoken also pointed out – with regard to certain sectors: I refer to tomatoes for the processing industry, citrus fruit and also nuts.
I therefore feel that certain subsidies have been particularly depleted, not only by the general fall in the euro which we have witnessed recently – in which regard it would be appropriate to take action before the situation degenerates into a dispute with the European establishment as a whole – but also with regard to the attitude to be adopted in respect of Mediterranean products. Totally justified protests and accusations have been made recently but, at Parliamentary level, there have been some proposals as well: proposals relating to the ceiling on financial assistance, proposals to standardise the benefits due to all producers' associations irrespective of the legal basis, a proposal – which, I feel, must be supported – to continue support for production for longer than the current three year period, and lastly, for specific products, in particular nuts, the proposal for a particularly fair assessment of the aid or subsidies to be allocated."@en1
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