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"Mr President, the common agricultural policy is beginning the greatest transformation of its entire history; it would therefore be a serious mistake to keep research within parameters which have become obsolete. We must therefore change the approach we have taken so far to agricultural research.
This is precisely the challenge faced by Mr Graefe zu Baringdorf in this European Parliament initiative report. He deals with it very sensibly in a report which I believe to be excellent. He essentially proposes that the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programme for Research should change in accordance with this new situation.
The Commissioner has told us that the Sixth programme is being applied – and the report says this – but nevertheless I believe that we do have time for the Commissioner to introduce certain modifications relating to the role of women in rural development, as it appears he is going to do.
It is also very important that the drawing up of this Seventh Framework Programme for Research should reflect this approach, which considers research into sustainable agriculture and rural development.
Paragraph 2 is fundamental, proposing that at least half of the budget for food technology and agricultural research be dedicated to sustainable and practical research into the various farming systems, and I would therefore be grateful if the Commission could also provide for this allocation of at least half of the budget for this purpose.
The report supports research intended to improve the quality and safety of foods from farm to table and stresses the importance of small-scale farming and of small- and medium-sized retailers. In this way a totally innovative potential is established, because we must remember that, until now, this small-scale agriculture had been completely forgotten.
Small- and medium-sized retailers had also been forgotten in the intensive agriculture of the past and the immediate future. All of this had been relegated within research and is quite rightly what the rapporteur now advocates as a profound change, an approach which reconsiders agricultural research from top to bottom, as is necessary, in other words, reorienting research towards the service of agriculture in harmony with nature.
For all of these reasons, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur once again and ask the Commissioner to change this approach as soon as possible and allocate the funds requested today by the European Parliament."@en1
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