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"Mr President, we have a dysfunctional market price chain. The imbalance of power between the players in the chain has resulted too often in the supply side not receiving a fair return for their produce and so, while I agree with and support the broad objectives of this report, I cannot agree with the proposals and solutions which the rapporteur suggests.
More regulation, mandatory powers and market intervention are not the solution, nor do they reflect the interests of all the stakeholders and, in particular, of 500 million consumers.
I do welcome, and believe there is a need for, greater transparency in the industry and I think, to that end, codes of practice and the appointment of ombudsmen would be helpful, but I urge the Commissioner here to approach this problem with a light touch.
By all means support voluntary initiatives; by all means encourage the supply side to organise themselves into cooperatives in order to get better presence in the market place; and by all means help them to promote and market their products and, overall, encourage all players in the marketplace to form mature, contractual arrangements. All those I welcome, and I suggest they are realistic proposals which the Commission can put forward.
At the end of the day, however, my message is that you interfere with the workings of the free market at your peril."@en1
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