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The common agricultural policy has historically been the main and most important area of EU intervention, and it is still crucially important today. This report, which I fully support, does well to highlight the value of agriculture, from both a food and a rural development and land preservation point of view. The CAP has already been radically (and rightly) reformed in the past: the new challenges that we face concern its further simplification and compliance. Smaller agribusinesses often incur heavy costs when complying with health and environmental rules. I therefore welcome the request for a possible adjustment of these rules to reflect the varying conditions on farms. The CAP can lend itself to fraud and deception, so it is also right to identify genuinely ‘active’ farmers at European level in order to prevent an unacceptable waste of resources. Lastly, I should like to stress the need to strongly oppose speculation by the international markets on food prices: I consider it unacceptable for high finance to be able to influence at will a strategic sector such as this, which ensures people’s food supply and very survival."@en1
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