Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-28-Speech-3-067"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft SAB 1/20012
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010228.5.3-067"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-28-Speech-3-0682
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Mulder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in my view this debate is taking place in an unreal atmosphere. We have in front of us a budget relating to the BSE crisis, but know that at this moment a far greater danger is haunting Europe: the danger that foot-and-mouth disease will spread on a large scale. This budget will, in any case, not be adequate to confront all these calamities. If we approve this budget, there will not be the slightest leeway left in the 2001 budget. Is that sensible? In the view of my group it is not. We believe extra leeway should be created for the months ahead. The only leeway that we have been able to find at the moment would be created if instead of a proportion of 70-30 for financing the disposal of livestock, a proportion of 50-50 were introduced. This would create the extra scope of approximately 300 million euro in the budget for dealing with other calamities in the future and maybe also for financing measures for combating foot-and-mouth disease. In the view of my group, the greatest threat looming at the moment is the renationalisation of agricultural policy. Every country will try in its own way to find funds to confront the outbreak of all those diseases. We must prevent every Member State pursuing its own independent policy: all policy must continue to issue from Brussels and that is why that extra leeway in the budget is necessary. I should like to ask the Commission what steps it has taken since the Haug resolution of last July on the guidelines for the budget: that resolution clearly asked for a consideration of alternative forms of finance in relation to outbreaks of disease. What has the Commission done on this point? Is it possible to insure ourselves in future against these kinds of calamities? Is a levy on meat required for an emergency fund? We would like answers to all such questions, because it is unacceptable that diseases should break out and we should have no resources to do anything about it."@en1

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