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dcterms:Date	"2008-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common organisation of agricultural markets and specific provisions for certain agricultural products as regards the national quotas for milk (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080311.30.2-221"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-03-11-Speech-2-2222
lpv:speaker	lp:James Nicholson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, first of all I welcome the recommendation that the rapporteur has put before us here today of 2% for the 12 months as a voluntary measure. I think it is a measured position to take. I am opposed to opening the floodgates on production as this, I believe, would solve nothing. Let us see how the market develops over the next 12 months. Then we can come back next year, re-visit the situation and take a much broader view. Everyone talks about a ‘soft landing’ for quotas but no one can tell me what that soft landing will be. It is a word that we use – the President-in-Office has used it and the Commissioner has used it – but what are we really talking about here when we hit 2013? I know that it is a long way away, but there are many dairy farmers out there at the moment who are really wondering what the situation is going to be as we lead into that time? So, while the returns for the dairy sector have changed dramatically during 2007, we cannot guarantee that this will continue forever. Let us be very honest about it. It was not what the Commission did. It was not what we, the politicians, did. It was not what any national government did or even the dairy sector did. It was market forces in the world that drove market price up and that is exactly what happened. Cereal prices have been driving the price up. But we have also got to understand that, coming into the next 12 months, the cost of cereals, the cost of fertiliser, the high cost of energy, the forage cost this summer, is going to mean that lots of the extra money that has gone to the dairy sector will in actual fact be absorbed in these extra costs. So let us not get carried away in believing that everything is so rosy and everything is wonderful in the dairy sector – because it is not. The extra 2% will produce a substantial amount. But I do agree with the Commissioner – let us not make the situation more complicated. Let us make it easier for the producer. The milk and dairy farming sector, regardless of where you are in Europe, is the backbone of the small family farm structure, and we must support it."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; REGI (2007-02-12--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Quaestors (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Ulster Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 quaestor; European Parliament (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2008-02-18--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"James Nicholson (PPE-DE ). –"1

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