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Mrs Fischer Boel, I think Katerina Batzeli’s report and Surján László’s opinion are technically sound and politically very correct. Restoring balance in the market is important, and we are still a long way from being able to achieve a market balance by 2010 with regard to European sugar production and sugar beet cultivation.
I do not envy the Commission or Parliament, because it is not easy to create order and equilibrium in a distorted, excessively complicated and oversubsidised system. This sector, after all, was the beloved child of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) compared to other, less favoured sectors.
I fully agree on the need for counterbalancing. If we implement the additional 10% reduction, there will still be a surplus of 2.1 million tonnes in the system, and if we do not manage to deal with this by 2010 we will need to make a further reduction of 14%.
I believe it is unfair, and I would ask the Commissioner and the Commission to weigh this carefully, that those countries which have made major reductions, namely Italy, Portugal and Finland, will still have to make a further reduction of 10% along with all the others. This is not fair.
I also agree that we should do more to protect the interests of small and medium-sized growers, because the ‘first-come-first-served’ rule puts them at an informational disadvantage compared with the multinationals. In Hungary one factory in five has closed down. The best sugar manufacturer has ceased operating, but neither the manufacturer nor the growers have come off badly. The only thing not covered adequately in the earlier regulation was compensation to employees, I mean compensation to the employees of the sugar manufacturer.
Lastly, I think it is very important that undertakings should not have to pay the restructuring levy if they reduce their quota. There is a demand to this effect. I ask Mrs Fischer Boel to support this, as it would encourage further reductions and help restore a balance in the market. Once again, helping small and medium-sized growers is therefore very important because this has a major social impact on European sugar beet growers. Thank you for your attention."@en1
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