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Mr President, Commissioner, we all agree on the need expressed here to make certain adjustments to the current COM with a view to confronting the new challenges facing the sector, but nobody wants a reform that goes any further than those needs, and this is expressed in the report.
The initiative report we are debating today has broad support, majority support in fact, not just in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, but also, I hope, in this Parliament and, above all, in the sector itself — which is not easy — and it takes up many of the points that my group, the Socialist Group, advocates and has introduced in the form of amendments: greater flexibility for the OPCHs, the need to clarify access to operative funds and to make it less bureaucratic, to promote associations and to work on the concentration of supply and the need to protect our producers from third countries, management of crisis situations, etc.
The Commission asked this Parliament for its opinion on the form the coming reform of the fruit and vegetables sector should take. Here are our responses, the responses agreed by Parliament and by the parties in question. We now hope that they will be taken into account both in terms of time and in terms of substance.
I would like to remind the Commission that the report calls clearly for a legislative proposal to be presented before this summer with a view to enhancing and improving the role of producers’ organisations fundamentally in the management of the market; the future of this sector lies in the market, and the market is the future. We must not forget that the fruit and vegetables sector is dynamic, but at the same time very fragile, and there is great instability in the markets.
For these reasons, we want a reform that takes account both of Parliament's report and of the demands of farmers themselves and, above all, that it be maintained and serve to improve agricultural income.
Finally, we are following the Doha Round negotiations very closely, with a view to introducing these agricultural products as sensitive products. Furthermore, it appears that the Commissioner has put forward the idea of replacing numerous COMs with a single COM or a single legal text. It goes without saying that we disagree with this, given the risk this decision poses to the sector, and given the insecurity that this announcement alone has created right away.
I would like to end by thanking the rapporteur for her willingness to reach this consensus, not just in the committee, but also here in Parliament, and I hope that the Commission will show goodwill in terms of the future, since that is what the sector is impatiently awaiting."@en1
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