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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have to say that the target has been missed, much as the approach taken was the right one. In contrast to the view expressed by Ms Reimers, I do not believe that the result here is a stronger position for producers. Producers are to be permitted to group together in up to 3.5% of the European market. Yet we already have dairies on the European market that make up over 6% of the total volume of milk. Is that fair? For me, the answer is a clear no. That would require higher collective volumes for the dairy farmers. We do have the contracts, and I agree that they are a good option. Yet we have left them as voluntary because a majority of the Member States did not want these contracts. This will make no difference on the market. There is hardly any mention of prices in connection with the contracts. At the end of the day, this will make no significant difference at all for many milk producers.
We had proposed that some consideration should be given to what will actually happen once the milk quotas have gone. We had proposed discussing a monitoring body in which the producers, the dairies, but ultimately also the European Union, consider quantity adjustment on the markets. Essentially, that too was strongly watered down.
I would agree that the milk crisis is behind us. I am fairly sure, however, that the next milk crisis lies ahead of us. We have strongly rising producer numbers, and we have falling prices. What will we do when the next milk crisis comes along? Will we once again use taxpayers’ money to pay export subsidies in order to remove volume from the European market? That cannot be a solution. We therefore call on the Commission to bring forward its report not due until 2014 to an earlier date and to bring to the table proposals for real solutions for the post-quota period. We need to discuss this.
I get the impression that many Member States are thinking of their dairy industries, but not their milk producers. This situation must change. With this package, we are not providing Europe’s milk producers with any really good tools or future prospects. Our group will therefore be voting against this package."@en1
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