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"Mr President, along with the Members of my group, I shall support the proposed Draft SAB. I should just like to make, as would the Members of my group, a few comments.
Commissioner, my first comment is to reiterate that not so long ago, you proposed a review of the Financial Perspective to increase external expenditure and the ceiling of heading 4, which certainly was a requirement and we agree with you here, and to do this by lowering the ceiling of agricultural spending in heading 1. If we had not supported you on that issue, it would be extremely difficult for you to propose the SAB that you put before us today.
You should, therefore, acknowledge that we have been more cautious and careful than you have. We think that every sinner should be allowed to reform rather than being put to death, and so we welcome your conversion.
My second comment is that we obviously need to totally divorce the problems of a complete reform of the common agricultural policy from the problem we are faced with now. Today, our house is on fire. We must, therefore, do everything we can to put this fire out. When your house is going up in smoke, you do not start to question the quality of the building that you are trying to protect – you start by putting out the fire. So, let us put aside the problems of reforming the agricultural policy and concentrate on the urgent issues in hand. That is not all, however.
Listening to Mrs Haug, Mr Abitbol and other speakers, I am struck by the general challenge launched on the CAP. Yet, I do not think that it can be said that it is because the CAP is what it is that there is this specific medical and veterinary problem, unless one has a slightly theological or fatalistic vision. There is a serious veterinary problem and a specific medical problem, which is the spread of the disease from livestock to humans. This has given rise to a whole raft of issues, but this could have happened, for example, in the case of foot-and-mouth disease, if we now discovered – God forbid – that foot-and-mouth can be spread to humans. We should not be like the Prophet Philippulus, the Tintin and Milou cartoon character, who walks along beating a gong saying “Retribution is nigh.” That is not the problem that we face.
My last comment is to mention the problem of how the burden should be shared, either 50/50 or 70/30. I believe that it would be truly paradoxical for us to reduce the need for Community solidarity at the very time when this disease and the problems that it creates for farmers are becoming a problem that affects the entire Community. This would be an absolute contradiction, which is why we do not support Mr Mulder and his friends on the proposal before us.
Commissioner, Mr President, that is all I wanted to say. You have our full support."@en1
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