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dcterms:Date	"2000-11-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:COM in pigmeat2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001114.12.2-298"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-14-Speech-2-2992
lpv:speaker	lp:Niels Busk2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I should like to begin by thanking Mr Garot for his report, even if I do not agree with its content. I agree that there has been a crisis in the pigfarming sector but I do not agree with Mr Garot’s proposal as to how future crises might be solved. The fact is that the pigfarming sector has been the only sector which has until now been able to compete on market conditions with just a relatively few forms of intervention such as export subsidies and private storage, and it must continue to do so. If subsidised by the EU, the regulatory fund proposed in Mr Garot’s report may well be of short-term benefit to small producers and help keep them artificially alive at the expense of larger and more productive producers who are, of course, the future for pigmeat production here in Europe. The extra EU subsidy proposed in Mr Garot’s report would, in my view, be quite unreasonable in a year such as this when, with Agenda 2000 and the forthcoming enlargement to include Central and Eastern Europe, we are to reform agricultural policy. We are not going to do this by inventing new aid schemes. Nor, moreover, is there any money in the Budget for this. I should like to have a statement from the Commission on the extent to which this proposal is in keeping with the trade agreements with the WTO and with Agenda 2000. In my view, it is in direct contravention of the common agricultural policy to establish national funds which will lead to unequal competition for European pigmeat producers. What is perhaps worse, however, is that it may contribute to a renationalisation of agricultural policy. I would therefore urge you to vote against both Mr Garot’s report and the Commission’s proposal so that the liberal policy which has so far prevailed in the pigmeat sector can continue."@en1

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