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"en.20110623.37.4-586-000"2
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"It concerns me that the planned ceiling on direct payments to farmers was not removed from the report on the new agricultural policy of the EU after 2013, which the European Parliament approved today. The approval of a ceiling on subsidies means in practice that a limit will be set on direct subsidies depending on the size of the agricultural undertaking. I would like to point out that the Czech Republic in particular, with an average farm size of 85 ha (the European average is about 15 ha) has the largest agricultural undertakings in the EU, so they would pay a heavy price for the ceiling on direct payments. The ceiling on direct payments would mean disaster not only for Czech farmers. Czech farmers would, in the worst-case scenario, lose up to CZK 13 billion, as a result of their weaker competitive position on the market. In my opinion, therefore, the result of today’s announcement plays into the hands of farmers from the old Member States, where farms are typically smaller. I am convinced that a ceiling on direct payments would unquestionably discriminate against large farms. It would lead to a situation where large agricultural undertakings would, even at the cost of a greater bureaucratic burden, artificially split up in order to minimise financial losses. European agriculture as a whole would then ultimately pay the price of an artificial and forced break-up of farms."@en1
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