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". Mr President, what is happening with regard to the new delimitation of less-favoured areas is, in truth, a bad joke, and I have the impression that the discussion this evening will do nothing to improve the punch line, either. We have just heard from the President-in-Office of the Council that the Member States and the Council are entirely different things. That is news to me. About two years ago, my report on this matter was adopted in connection with which we made many proposals here in Parliament, as has already been said today. Absolutely nothing from this report has been retained in the Commission’s reform proposal. The Commission is continuing on its own stubborn path. Above all, however, we still do not know what this new delimitation will mean. We do not know which areas will be removed or which new areas will be included. Please do not misunderstand me: it may very well be that there will be a better delimitation than the one we have today. If we see that some Member States are made up 100% of Less-Favoured Areas, that is entirely possible. However, it is a question of delimiting the right areas and not simply of delimiting as many areas as possible. In my view, the eight proposed criteria will not necessarily help us to do that. Above all, however, it is absurd that Parliament has still not seen the simulation of these criteria. While the Commission is claiming that it cannot release the maps because they belong to the Member States – as has just been confirmed to us – ministers of individual Member States are demanding that Parliament amend the criteria. How can we be expected to do that if we do not actually know the results of this? In fact, the only thing that is missing from this whole charade is for some Member States or the Commission to claim that Parliament is insisting on the new delimitation in this form. Then the confusion really would be perfect. I therefore urgently call on you as President-in-Office of the Council to proceed in a transparent way here and to put Parliament in a position to be able to do its job properly in the interests of the Council, the Commission and, most importantly, the farmers themselves."@en1
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