Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-227"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Question Time (Commission)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.10.2-227"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-2282
lpv:speaker	lp:Alonso José Puerta2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Izquierda Unida (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Thank you very much Commissioner Patten. Question No 36 by Monica Frassoni (): The Ebro transfer scheme will directly provide some 600 hm of water for agriculture in the Mediterranean. In addition, the re-use for agricultural purposes of water transferred for urban use will provide a further 150 hm . Added to this will be more than 200 hm of desalinated water. Finally, the NHP provides for investment in improving the efficiency of existing irrigation systems, which could generate hundreds more cubic hectolitres. In total, the increase in agricultural water supply under the plan would be well in excess of 1000 hm per year. In modern Mediterranean agriculture every cubic metre of water generates 3 euro worth of agricultural production. In many cases, hothouse production exceeds 6 euro per cubic metre. The Ebro transfer scheme will therefore boost current production by several billion euro. Aside from the question of how officially irrigated areas are monitored, these new resources will increase production levels, since they are bound to be used somewhere. Has the Commission considered what effect this massive increase in supply might have on farm prices? Mediterranean agriculture markets are already virtually saturated in the case of some products and North African countries are starting to penetrate these markets. The precarious balance currently prevailing in Mediterranean agriculture, which essentially keeps it outside the CAP subsidy system, could well be upset by the Ebro transfer scheme."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"3"1 "Part II"1 "President."1 "Questions to Commissioner Fischler"1 "Subject: Spain's National Hydrological Plan (NHP) and Mediterranean agriculture"1

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