Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-15-Speech-2-178"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:COM in beef and veal market2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010515.8.2-178"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-15-Speech-2-1792
lpv:speaker	lp:Brice Hortefeux2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ECON (1999-10-27--2001-06-13)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la République (1999-09-15--2002-06-26)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (1999-11-11--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-10-29--2001-06-13)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-09-15--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the financial implications of the emergency plan proposed by the Commission to deal with the upheavals in the beef market as a result of the BSE crisis, have now been referred to the Committee on Budgets. This plan was published on 13 February and was, therefore, unable to take into account the crisis caused by the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, two areas infected with which were discovered in the United Kingdom in February. In these circumstances, I believe it should be stressed to the House that the current number of cases already represents a potential cost of over EUR 170 million, and that, on 8 May, the Commission quite rightly proposed establishing a reserve of EUR 1 billion. This new crisis to hit European farmers has three major consequences. The first is a direct cost to the Community budget, which still has not been defined but which is regularly increased. The second is a negative impact on beef and veal consumption and exports and lastly, the third is an impact on animal destruction programmes and, as a result, on slaughter costs. In addition to the Commission’s proposals, we must therefore be well aware that we are up against a major problem. All the financial forecasts of beef consumption and exports are approximate, since they do not take into account the consequences of the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. It is my view, therefore, that beef and veal consumption in 2001 will, unfortunately, fall by more than the 10.8%, forecast by the Commission. It is also unlikely that exports in 2001 will reach 60% of the GATT limit. The financial requirements could well, therefore, be higher than the Commission’s forecasts. We all understand that, in normal circumstances, financial inaccuracies would have been enough to justify a refusal but, given the urgent nature of the situation, the Committee on Budgets decided to support the Commission’s proposal and it hoped that Parliament would approve the amendments, as the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development have been able to, thanks to the excellent work by Robert Sturdy, while requesting a prior consultation of the budgetary authority should the costs incurred need to be revised."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph