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"Commissioner, I would like to thank the rapporteur for this thorough and professional work. This is a worthy continuation of the reform initiated by the previous commissioner, Mr Franz Fischler.
I strongly approve of proposals for both the Commission and Member States to support small and micro-enterprises. Since the role of these enterprises in the employment rate and development of rural areas is particularly important, the support criteria established by Member States must allow those enterprises preferential access to funding for rural development.
I also endorse the idea of continuing support for young farmers in founding their own companies, by covering the expenses they incur in preparing their business plans.
In addition, I would like to emphasise the need to support private forest owners more effectively, using a new financing system, and to compensate their expenditures in the reproduction and maintenance of forest resources. Representing Estonia, where forest makes up 50% of the mainland, 40% of that being privately-owned forest, I am aware of these people’s concerns.
In financing the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, a few circumstances should be kept in mind:
Firstly, the European Union must guarantee the financial viability of this regulation; in other words, the funds must make it possible to finance the rural life of both the old and the new Member States.
Secondly, the EU’s budget line for rural development must not be lowered under any circumstances, since that would be at variance with the logic of the common agricultural policy. I would like to emphasise that the new regulation of rural development expands the selection of measures in the areas of forestry, NATURA and non-agricultural jobs, which necessitates an even more rapid increase in funding.
Lastly, in financing, it is important to make a clear distinction between measures with structural consequences and the measures of other structural funds."@en1
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