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The European Commission is still clearing up after BSE. Having failed to deal with the root cause of the disease in 1990, which is what Jacques Delors and his gang refused to do so as not to interrupt the triumphant march, firstly towards the single market and then towards the euro, we have since adopted numerous financial and technical stop-gap measures to ward off the never-ending effects of what has been a disaster in health, trade and financial terms.
This is the case of the new measure for the COM in beef and veal, which is the subject of Mr Sturdy’s excellent report. In order to save the market which it brought to the brink of collapse, the Commission is going back to its ideological Malthusianism. The special premiums for male cattle and suckler cows would once again be limited to 90 animals or 1.8 LU per hectare. The supply of beef would thus be limited in order to adapt to the drop in demand. Every Member State will set an individual ceiling for each of its farmers. Mr Sturdy is proposing a series of amendments to maintain farmers’ income, particularly for farmers involved in extensive farming. The report recommends, for instance, that the premium for steers be increased, and there are also calls to promote beef and veal by proposing an increase in the current budget of EUR 10 million, which is insufficient.
To cap it all, a ‘Special Purchase Scheme’ is proposed for cattle over 30 months old, so that they can be stored and sold off at some point, like the terminally ill who have themselves frozen, in the hope that they can be resuscitated when a cure has been discovered. When we know that public stocks are increasing by 50 000 tonnes each month, that the Commission had already bought back 175 000 tonnes in April and that the beef sector used appropriations worth EUR 7 billion in 2001, you can see the scale of the financial disaster that Jacques Delors’ team made inevitable when it turned its back at the first signs of the BSE crisis. And the new measures proposed by Brussels, which are, moreover, completely ineffective, are seeking to further increase the debt by EUR 1 million. The matter is still not over."@en1
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