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"Mr President, I just want to raise two points this evening at the same time as praising the rapporteur for the very sensible and courteous manner in which he has run the budget in advance of next year. My first point is addressed to the Commissioner and concerns B-1 items where the Commission pays an enormous amount of money for subsidies for growing rice, bananas and the distillation of wine. These are items I would have thought we were by now starting to reduce the payments for. I would ask her to look at them. I tabled many amendments amounting to hundreds of millions of euros. I hope that rather than compulsory expenditure like that, being left to grow year by year, it should be looked at very closely. Perhaps I could ask her to do that in advance of future budgets.
The other matter is a perennial matter which comes up each year: the European women's lobby and finance for women's organisations generally. We tabled an amendment, and so did Mrs Avilés Perea of the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities, to say that the money that is voted for lobby organisations for women following the Beijing conference should not all go, as it has for many years, to the European Women's lobby.
I know many of my colleagues in the Chamber receive all sorts of letters and e-mails from around Europe saying it all must go to this one organisation. This is wrong, we need to encourage new organisations in this very important field. It is right and proper that the amendment that was put forward by the United Kingdom delegation was in fact passed. This made it clear, in the remarks column, that one organisation, any single organisation within that spending line should not get more than 65%. I trust that the approved amendment will be held to when the budget comes out. I thank the Commissioner for her consideration."@en1
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