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"en.20020530.6.4-153"2
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"Since this is a mid-term evaluation of Agenda 2000, let us start by examining the situation of European farming following the reforms of the CAP which have taken place since 1992. What do we find?
Prices of the main agricultural products have fallen. The overall income of Community farmers has been greatly reduced, while that of other occupational categories continues to increase. For essential products (sheepmeat, vegetable proteins), our deficit, and hence our dependence on imports of uncertain quality, has become greater. We have become net importers of cereals. Consequently, the drop in the number of farmers has accelerated dramatically in recent years and, in a new development, an increasing number of young farmers are giving up farming.
Agenda 2000 is a failure, and the principle of its reform should be a pricing policy which combines the consumer’s requirement for greater safety, quality and traceability, the public’s demand for sustainable, environmentally sound farming using all the land, and the farmer’s need for a decent income. This reform will only be possible if we reconsider the application to agriculture of the rules of the free-trade system."@en1
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