Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-03-Speech-2-217"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-06-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Reform of the common agricultural policy2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030603.6.2-217"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-03-Speech-2-2182
lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I congratulate the Commission on its radical proposals for decoupling. I fear that the propositions that Parliament is putting forward are far too timid and believe that we should go down the road of decoupling. If we are going to do it partially, then let us at least do it sector by sector, not by horizontal decoupling across all sectors. Mr Cunha, you know I believe that part of the proposal is mad. Farmers need a clear direction as to where they are going. We need a decision from the Council of Ministers so that farmers can plan for the future. What we do not want is a complete mixing of decoupling. If we need to look after less-favoured areas there are ways to do that. We do not have to do that through production subsidies. The decoupling system that you have put forward, Commissioner, will help us with the WTO round. It will also help us face up to enlargement. Let us face it, many of the accession countries would find it very difficult to put into place the production-based subsidies we have. What point is there in asking them to put those systems in place if, a year or two later, we change the whole system again? We have to face up to the reality that we will have a different agricultural policy for 25 Member States than we have for the existing 15. That is where we have to be careful in what we do. We also have to be sure that when Europe goes to the WTO round we can fight our corner and face up not only to the United States, but Third World countries. We need to support our farmers, but not at the expense of Third World trade. The proposals you put forward will help us to support European agriculture, European farmers and give good value to European taxpayers who are sometimes forgotten."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-05-16--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Parish (PPE-DE )."1

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