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"Mr President, I should like to thank you very much for this opportunity to take part here today in the debate, which I have found both interesting and very constructive. I want also again to thank the European Parliament for its reading of the Commission’s communication, and I understand that a decision may be made at the meeting tomorrow.
I do not know if I might be permitted to concur in the praise accorded at the meeting here this evening to the chairman of Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. I of course appreciate from the debate that the European Parliament has just as many approaches to European agricultural policy as I encounter in the Council of Ministers, and I therefore fully appreciate the difficulties that Mr Daul has been so extremely good at negotiating, as is apparent from the proposal now due to be voted on.
Many people touched upon the issue of the prospects for reforming agricultural policy following the Brussels Summit. How will the policy eventually look? How long will the reforms take? There are many outstanding issues but, with the conclusions adopted at the Brussels Summit, the European Council has clarified matters regarding the maximum expenditure on the market-related area and direct payments for the budget period up to 2013.
In this context, I should like to draw attention to section 12, generally, of the conclusions, which in actual fact says three different things.
First of all, it anticipates ceilings set for expenditure for market-related expenditure and direct payments, and not future decisions on the common agricultural policy.
Secondly, it does not anticipate possible results following the implementation of paragraph 22 of the Berlin European Council conclusions. Paragraph 22 of the conclusions is the background to the mid-term review of agricultural policy, which we discussed at the most recent meetings of the Council of Ministers.
Thirdly – and as a response, too, to some of the questions raised this evening – what is stated is without prejudice to the international commitments entered into by the European Union, for example in the launching of the next Doha Round, the ways and means of which are to be in place before the end of March of next year.
As I also said in my first contribution, the negotiations in each of the three areas mentioned are continuing and will not necessarily be influenced by the fact that the European Council has now set a ceiling for the expenditure up until 2013. I shall not at this stage weary MEPs with a report on the Council’s view of developments, but how far we get – and that is of course what is exciting and interesting: how far will we get in the individual areas? – completely depends upon the wishes of the individual Member States and upon what we can agree to in the Council of Ministers. Exciting tasks still lie ahead, therefore, and we look forward to completing these.
I should like, however, again to say thank you for the sound cooperation we have had with the European Parliament. I hope that this will continue in the further discussions of the development of a European agricultural policy, to the satisfaction and benefit of both producers and consumers."@en1
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