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This proposal for a regulation seeks to phase out the common organisation of the market in the dried fodder sector from the 2008/2009 marketing year onwards. The Commission’s reasoning turns on environmental issues, specifically the use of fossil fuel for dehydrating and even the use of irrigation. Environmental issues can be resolved by other means, however, such as plans to reduce fossil energy, natural predrying in the sun or the use of renewable energies.
Nevertheless, we must view this sector as yet another source of vegetable protein production, in which the European Union has a growing shortage that already stands at 35 million tonnes of soya equivalent. In other words, the EU is meeting only 23% of its vegetable protein needs. This situation will be exacerbated after enlargement. The consequence of losing this form of production is that we have to import, mainly from the USA, two million tonnes of soya meal equivalent, with all the risks of GMO contamination that this entails.
Accordingly, whilst acknowledging the importance of the environmental factor, we agreed with the rapporteur on the need to continue with the present CMO, to strengthen market instruments and to increase total aid to EUR 68 per tonne from the marketing year 2004/2005 onwards."@en1
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