Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-02-Speech-1-091"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cultivation of plant proteins2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020902.8.1-091"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-02-Speech-1-0922
lpv:speaker	lp:Niels Busk2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 unknown; Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I would first of all thank Mr Stevenson for a particularly thorough report. I agree with the conclusions and the diagnosis. It is therefore cause for concern that EU self-sufficiency in plant proteins has fallen to below 23%. Market-related price relationships have made it advantageous to buy imported oilseed cake, especially soya meal, but climatic risks and changes to production in those countries from which we supply ourselves make the EU all too vulnerable. The EU therefore needs to increase its self-sufficiency by cultivating oil-bearing plants, and I am also able to endorse the various initiatives put forward by the rapporteur in his report. Nor shall I omit to alert the Commission to the fact that the arrangements made specifically impair the European grain market by making it possible to import cheap grain from Russia and that they simply contribute to making plant production less profitable financially. At the same time, the lower grain prices in Europe give rise to an increase in pig breeding which in turn requires higher imports of soya meal. This initiative therefore promotes neither European plant cultivation nor European production of proteins. I should also like to point out that there is no proper scientific basis for the ban on fishmeal mentioned by the Commissioner. It is not technically correct to argue that, because of a fear of meat and bone meal from ruminants being mixed with fishmeal, it is necessary to keep fishmeal out of the protein supply. We must say to those countries which are in control of their production – that is to say, those countries which really can keep the production of proteins separate – that they must of course also be given an advantage so that those countries which cannot keep the production of proteins separate are not those which impose penalties."@en1

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