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"Mr President, this debate had gone on for almost an hour before we heard the two magical words ‘soft landing’. They are not to be found either in the Commission’s text or in the text of the agreement. However, I would like to remind the Commissioner of the following: at the time of the reforms in 2007 and 2009, when we voted definitively for an end to the milk quota and for greater market orientation, it was said that all Member States must have the opportunity to prepare themselves for the new situation, in other words to adapt gradually to the new system. Now we observe that, as soon as you opt for greater market orientation, you allow the market to play a bigger part, power is unequally divided when it comes to the food production chain.
This agreement is an attempt to strengthen the position of the primary producer, and to that extent it deserves to be welcomed by you. It does contain good elements, for which I congratulate the negotiators. But I also have my doubts about it. It concentrates on the relationship between farmers and processors, whereas the problems now often occur at a later stage in the production chain, with supermarket buyers and supermarkets themselves. That is where the big money is made; that is where, for a number of years, you have seen supermarkets make a profit of EUR 0.20 on a kilogram of young cheese and then a profit of EUR 1.20, six times as much, on the identical kilogram of young cheese two years later. Therefore, for the how-manyeth time, we are asking the European Commission: please have some concern for transparency in the food production chain, since it is a matter of where the power lies and how the profits are shared.
To conclude: this agreement is a good means by which certain Member States can prepare themselves for the new situation. I am thinking of mountainous regions, other disadvantaged regions, Member States with highly protected raw produce. But other countries will remain shackled to the milk quota system right up to the last moment and then have to pass over from the old to the new system from one day to the next. This is hardly the promised ‘soft landing’.
As Mr Dantin has said, it is a step forward, but, looking to the new situation that awaits us in 2015, we must make other steps forward too, and I hope the European Commission will do so without delay."@en1
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