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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the increase in food prices requires two types of response. The first concerns the need to plan medium- and long-term actions. In this sense, answers must come from the new common agricultural policy, which must ensure food security for European citizens, provide consumers with food at affordable prices and protect farmers’ incomes. With the new CAP we must give – and this is what we are in fact doing – strong support to farm incomes under the first pillar and support measures for rural development, increasing investment in agriculture and food security.
The second response is the need to intervene with emergency measures to protect the weakest link in the chain, because when food prices fluctuate, the effects are actually quite strange: when prices rise, producers and farmers do not derive any benefit, but when prices fall, producers see their profits and their already meagre earnings decrease. It is clear then that there are problems in the supply chain and a lack of transparency.
Commissioner, these serious problems in the supply chain include, for example, abuse of dominant purchasing power, unfair contractual practices – including late payments – unilateral changes to contracts, advance payments for access to negotiations and uneven distribution of profit margins along the food supply chain.
The Commission must propose measures …"@en1
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