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"Mr President, it is actually a pity about the great amount of work done by the Commission and by the rapporteur, who has indeed taken a great deal of trouble, because, at the end of the day, tomorrow's vote will not result in a satisfactory outcome. So this sixth attempt is a real loss.
I would like to make use of the opportunity afforded by this short speech to refer to two things. I get the impression that, with the avowed intention of thoroughly justifiably protecting small businesses – some of which are very small indeed – we will end up back with a situation we very often encounter on agricultural issues, where the small players are used as a pretext while the big players can continue to safeguard their position.
Please do not misunderstand me. I am very much in favour of maintaining the small distilleries and the arrangements for benefits in kind, especially in the form in which they exist in Germany, but within bounds, and for the benefit of the small rather than of the great.
I would like to end with the topic of biofuels, one that is of the utmost importance. I believe that biofuels represent a great opportunity for agriculture. There is still far more that we can do in this area than has been done to date, and that is through research into them, into the conditions to be imposed on them and how best to promote them, so that we can involve these alcohol products, too, in an ecological approach to our surroundings and thereby find new trade outlets for our agricultural sector."@en1
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