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"Mr President, the subject of compensation payments that we are debating today is a very important one for our farmers in the areas concerned. I would like to point out here that the compensation payments are a success story in European agricultural policy. They have helped the management of the land to continue throughout these areas, where the biodiversity of the cultural landscape has been safeguarded and the jobs of people in these areas have been retained. This has meant that people in these areas continue to have prospects. I therefore find the way that the Commission as well as the Council have dealt with this sensitive matter even more incomprehensible. If we consider these eight biophysical criteria, we see that we will gain new inequities that are significantly worse than those under the current system, in which there are a few delimitation problems. We would have a system that would probably cause a great deal of anger. Details have leaked from Germany indicating that 2.8 million hectares would be removed and 1.2 million new hectares would be included in their place. When I speak to farmers from these areas, they are surprised that they should suddenly be in a Less-Favoured Area. From France, we hear that an area where farmers have the highest average income is to become a less-favoured area. This just does not add up. I would ask the Council whether it is prepared to work with Parliament in the spirit of the Treaty of Lisbon so that we can draw up better proposals. Sometimes all I can say, with a certain amount of irony, is: I think as Parliament we need to make a few copies of the Treaty of Lisbon available to the Council and the Commission so that they finally catch on in all areas that this Treaty exists. It appears that many of them are not yet aware of this. Since the whole business really does already resemble a comedy show, as Mr Jahr put it, I would like to make another suggestion. We should declare the area in which the Commission and the Council meet to be a Less-Favoured Area, because they are withholding more than 66% of the information from us."@en1
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