Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-03-Speech-2-190"
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"Mr President, EU agricultural aid discriminates against the developing countries, the acceding EU Member States, the environment and ecological interests. The large intensive farms receive the most aid, leading to environmental damage and reduced animal welfare. In the set-aside scheme, which promotes the cultivation of marginal land, farmers are paid for doing nothing. The consumer pays twice: he or she pays via tax for the aid and then pays the artificially high prices for everyday goods. Reform of EU agricultural aid is therefore more necessary than ever.
The June Movement believes that the only real way forward is to abolish discrimination by creating equal conditions through cutting back on agricultural aid with a view to phasing it out entirely.
The cutbacks must be organised in such a way as to create equal conditions for both conventional and organic farms. This can be achieved by stipulating that no more than 70% of the aid is to go to the actual acreage, a target that can be reached by removing the higher amount of aid for protein crops and by promoting extensification by setting an upper limit of 0.5 units of livestock per hectare. This means that the set-aside aid and the additional measures can in this way also be done away with. The cutbacks must restrict the artificial structural development whereby the large intensive farms receive the largest amount of aid. This can be done by having the aid relate to upper limits of 150 hectares and 75 units of livestock. The cutbacks must also create better conditions for livestock. This can be done by phasing out the aid for skimmed-milk powder from factory calves, as well as by phasing out the aid for the horrendous export of live animals to third countries. Better conditions for the developing counties can be created by phasing out sugar aid and direct aid for exports.
Finally, the EU countries must be placed on an equal footing. Instead of increasing aid by 100% for the new countries in 2013, the old countries should receive 25% less aid in 2013."@en1
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