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"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, as far as the impact maps are concerned, I could say, if this was not such a serious issue, that the whole matter is becoming more and more like a comedy show. You are claiming in all seriousness that there are Member States sending maps to the Commission, while in the Council they are saying that these maps are not intended to be published or passed on to the European Parliament. That is simply incomprehensible. Up to now, I believed that the European Council was made up of the sum of the Member States. Is there are two-part working system here, where the Commission receives maps that are then intended to be kept confidential? I simply cannot understand this. It would, in my view, help to build trust if we could at least receive the Member States’ maps that the Commission is in possession of. How to actually get hold of these impact maps is indeed the most closely guarded secret in the European Union. They are being treated in a very precious way, like very expensive shares. This cannot be the case. I think the drawback with the Commission’s proposal is that it is not just a question of the physical soil conditions, but also of the yield capacity of the soil. We must not carry harmonisation in the European Union to the extreme. Conditions in the EU are much too varied for this. I would therefore argue in favour of us discussing the less-favoured areas once again calmly and objectively, without any time pressure. That means that we should not do this within the framework of the agricultural reform, but in a separate report, precisely because we will have no time pressure, because the situation is so confusing, because we should not allow this issue to get lost in the huge ocean of agricultural reform, and because we are talking about less-favoured areas here. It is not about who is right. In my opinion, it is simply about the farmers affected and their families and incomes. We should therefore give ourselves the time that we need to discuss and take a decision on this problem properly."@en1
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