Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-10-21-Speech-2-157"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-10-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2004 budget procedure2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031021.5.2-157"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-10-21-Speech-2-1582
lpv:speaker	lp:Albert Jan Maat2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; AGRI (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I would also like to begin by complimenting the rapporteur, Mr Mulder, on the way in which we in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development have been able to work with him. We are not satisfied in every regard, but we have made good progress. We have a clear message for the Council. Because the interim reform of agriculture policy has very far-reaching consequences for the European countryside. Now that this reform is a fact it seems as if the Council, witness its draft budget, does not understand what the said reform actually means for farmers and country people in the European Union. What is being asked is that the countryside and agriculture be more market-driven and that more countryside policy lead to more dynamism in the countryside. If the European countryside wants to survive this reform, then it is advisable to use the money available more appropriately. After all, to give just one example, the average European dairy farmer alone gives up some EUR 6 000 in income per year. In my own country it is double that: EUR 12 000. Nor will the enlargement of the European Union have its intended effect. A new, longer external border makes the risks of epidemic animal diseases such as foot and mouth, swine fever and fowl pest greater. Add to this that the food safety, animal welfare and the environmental requirements in the European Union for the producer are the highest in the world, then we must have all hands on deck to structure the 2004 budget so that allowance is made for both the consumer and the farmer. Given the high ambition level of the European Union, a small consumer supplement on a number of products, such as milk and meat, would for that matter be very easy to defend. Madam President, as rapporteur for the agriculture budget I have on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development submitted the following change proposals for the treatment of this first reading. To begin with we would like to see more money being set aside for the LEADER programme. The same goes for the SAPAR programme, extremely important for our new Member States. We would also appreciate the introduction of a new budget line for the LEADER EAST programme. In addition, we want EUR 23 million extra for control and prevention. We would also like to see EUR 6 million extra for promotion payments by the Member States, in particular to give the market-driven policy more substance. In addition, EUR 1 million extra for promotion payments by the EU. With regard to the information supply for the amended agriculture policy, we would like to see 3 million extra being set aside. And in the area of animal diseases in particular we would like EUR 12 million extra to be set aside for veterinary measures and animal welfare and public health measures. We would also like EUR 18 million extra to be set aside for the animal diseases emergency fund."@en1

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