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"Mr President, this year, once again, the agriculture budget has been subject to a certain amount of rigour which I believe reflects certain political views rather than the true situation of the agriculture sector. Apart from this reservation, maintaining a margin of EUR 2.3 billion below the financial perspectives could be justified. But is the Commission prepared to mobilise these funds swiftly should the markets become stagnant?
Let us take as an example the appropriations allocated to eradicating epizootic diseases and to the Emergency Veterinary Fund. These were severely reduced even though so much remains to be done, both in the field of prevention and in terms of research. The year 2003 will be characterised by an evolving CAP. Half way through, the Commission turned the review into a proposal for fundamental reform, which appears to ignore farmers and their wellbeing and turn them into mere tools.
I believe this departure, which consists of divesting the CAP of any substance in the name of a so-called rural development policy, is a mistake, and I would like to hear the Commission’s reply to the following questions. Given that we originally chose a common agricultural policy, do you not think that it is the Union’s responsibility to pay at least as much attention to this sector as the United States, by allocating the corresponding financial means, rather than aiming to match world prices? How can we ensure that the ambition of European rural development does not encroach upon national and local competence in the field of land use planning? Is this not a way of promoting environmental concerns which are addressed under another budgetary heading? I wonder if this is really the role of the CAP. Do you think we can simultaneously try to bring our prices into line with world prices and increase production costs, while contenting ourselves with applying a ‘communicating vessels’ policy to the first and second pillars?"@en1
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