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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank the rapporteurs for their work. The milk package that we will be deciding on tomorrow, after prolonged negotiations, is something that I welcome in principle.
The aim is to strengthen farmers’ position in the value chain. Parliament acknowledges that farmers’ negotiating position in the milk market is too weak in comparison with the chain stores. Meanwhile even the consumers are aware that it is not the farmers who profit from any high food prices. The producer price, after all, is only a fraction of the retail price.
What we are deciding on tomorrow will neither improve the situation for milk producers nor provide a lasting solution for the highly sensitive milk market. Similarly, there is no way – and this idea was just mentioned – that it constitutes a soft landing.
The introduction of dedicated producer communities is something that each Member State must evaluate for itself. There is already a producer-dominated system in the form of the cooperatives. For many Member States it therefore makes more sense to continue to develop the cooperatives. Dairy farmers must be able to raise their market position to an equal footing. In mountainous regions, in particular, that will be the key issue. Many dairy farms in such regions specialise in high-quality production. That high quality needs to be worth it, however, and that is why the protection of European high-quality products is the primary objective.
It is important that the Member States should now also adopt these instruments. Doing so offers added benefit and promotes competitiveness, especially for the worst-affected rural areas. This milk package is a first step to supporting the stricken dairy sector. It does not, however, provide any real ways to solve the problem of the abolition of the milk quotas.
There is an urgent need for further measures to deal with this absolutely free market situation and the volatile prices. Instruments are needed that provide a solution for dairy farmers in all the Member States, that emphasise the value of the milk produced and that ensure a livelihood for farmers. Commissioner, the fight for a viable dairy sector calls for greater courage!"@en1
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