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"en.20110623.37.4-589-000"2
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This report comes in the wake of the previously drafted Lyon report on the broad strokes of common agricultural policy (CAP) reform, and of the Commission communication on the CAP, of which it is largely in favour. Despite important aspects, which we acknowledge, such as the refusal to cut the CAP’s overall budget or the proposal to keep planting rights in the wine sector, the report’s content is profoundly negative, advocating a CAP whose consequences constitute a very clear step towards the decline and destruction of Portuguese agriculture.
In line with previous reforms, it re-emphasises and deepens the deregulation and liberalisation of markets, and the ‘market orientation’ of production, so threatening countries’ rights to produce and to food security and sovereignty, as well as the survival of small and medium-sized farmers. It continues to advocate the subordination of agriculture to World Trade Organisation rules, so promoting intensive, export-focused models of production at the expense of local production and consumption that are socially and environmentally sustainable. Given the profound injustice today existing between countries, producers and products, the advocated redistribution of CAP funds cannot be dissociated from the guarantee of minimising losses by the major beneficiaries…"@en1
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