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"Mr President, I too would like to thank our fellow Member for this thorough report, which on the face of it concerns very technical rules, budgetary rules. In reality, however, these rules are capable of affecting the work of our farmers – who are after all the legitimate and indispensable producers of our daily food. I would like to discuss a couple of these in greater detail, without starting a very wide-ranging debate about the Health Check or anything else. I do just need to get off my chest, however, that it puzzles me where my highly respected fellow Member from the Dutch Socialist Party (SP) found the large landowners of whom she spoke in a country as densely populated as the Netherlands. Anyway, I digress.
First of all, I would like to express my support for the Commission proposal to make it possible, in the event of shortcomings, for the Member State concerned to be penalised – to have deductions applied – more efficiently, possibly by suspending or reducing its intermediate payments. In my opinion, the Commission should look not only at the gravity and nature of the non-conformity, as it wrote, but also at its duration. For example, in the event of sustained breaches the Commission should increase the percentage reduction every year. We must also ensure that the new rules we are now introducing do not lead to an increase in the administrative burden.
I should like to conclude by discussing the tricky subject of the publication of the names of those receiving support from the European Agricultural Fund. My country is doing this already to a great extent, and the Commission is now proposing to introduce it throughout the EU with a view to transparency and the legitimacy of this expenditure. I can endorse these efforts, but with two brief comments, which are also expressed in the form of amendments. First of all, the publication of this data may infringe the rights of those involved. We must thus ensure adequate data protection to prevent the data falling into the wrong hands or being used to benefit the actions of radical animal-rights activists, for example: a phenomenon with which several Member States are already confronted.
Finally, I would like to say that the Commission believes that this proposal will also enable it to improve budgetary control. This may be the case to a certain extent, but I take the view that it is of even greater benefit to budgetary control to introduce national declarations concerning the budgetary resources managed at national level. Therefore, I would just like to devote my last second to calling on the Commission and the Council to speed up the process of introducing these national declarations."@en1
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