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dcterms:Date	"2012-04-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Delimitation of Less-Favoured Areas in the context of the reform of the CAP (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120419.20.4-506-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-04-19-Speech-4-507-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Maria do Céu Patrão Neves2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Commission proposed a long time ago to reassess the delimitation of Less-Favoured Areas on the basis of biophysical criteria. However, no information has been made available to date on the process under way, which becomes particularly important when Parliament is debating the future common agricultural policy (CAP). Identifying less-favoured areas is absolutely key to realising the European agricultural model represented by the CAP, since it establishes support levels on the basis of positive discrimination, so as to make agricultural production viable and promote it throughout the EU. This will also ensure rural areas’ viability and prevent land from being abandoned or depopulated. At the same time, it is important that the evaluation of Less-Favoured Areas – to be undertaken on the basis of simulations carried out by the Member States – be fairly detailed, whilst ensuring a high level of subsidiarity when setting out criteria that must be socioeconomic as well as biophysical, considering limits at levels that suit the characteristics of each Member State, and respecting the specificities of each region thereof. The established criteria should also consider the possibility of cumulative biophysical characteristics, combining physical criteria, such as soil and climate, with geographical ones, such as isolation and distance, as well as production, pasture proportion, herd density, and so on. Regrettably, the Commission proposal totally fails to mention geographical disadvantages, such as isolation, farm dispersal, distance from consumption centres, or distance from decision-making and services centres. These issues are very important in a country like Portugal, whose territory comprises an area in the far west of the European mainland and two outermost regions – the Azores and Madeira – in the middle of the Atlantic ocean."@en1
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