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"Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Nicholson, the rapporteur, and all the shadows who worked on this.
This provides answers to some Member States and to the dairy farmers who have particular problems with private operators. For others there are no issues because there is a cooperative structure. I welcome this as an initiative – and might I suggest to Mr Nicholson that he should write the layman’s guide to codecision in agriculture.
I am concerned that, when we move on to these very large dossiers, it will be much more difficult – and I think Jim Nicholson is nodding in agreement – to come to a good outcome, but we live in hope.
The issues I want to raise today are wider than just the report that is before us – which I will be supporting – and relate to the report of December 2010 which spoke of the soft landing for the dairy sector. That report indicated that a soft landing may be not guaranteed in a number of Member States.
I rise on behalf of one of those Member States – Ireland – which has a problem in relation to this much promised soft landing. Dairy farmers in Ireland see a situation where their product is in demand, where Europe is below quota and where they would wish to be able to produce without a penalty. I know the position from the Commission on this issue, but I would ask – like other colleagues – that perhaps we need to bring a report forward from the 2014 date.
We need to consider the position of those Member States which are not enjoying a soft landing and where there are penalties being imposed on producers for supplying a product for which there is a market. The penalty is extremely severe, whereas Europe is actually not filling its entire quota over all of the Member States.
The last point relates to the power of the retail sector – not for this report, but an issue that will not go away – and I know the Commission will have something for us by June of this year."@en1
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