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lpv:speaker	lp:Julie Girling2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, this is a once in a generation opportunity to make changes to agriculture in Europe. In a Europe in financial crisis, every penny of public money we spend is under severe scrutiny. How can we justify the continuation of devoting nearly 40 % of the EU budget to agricultural subsidy without a clear plan to tie public money to public goods? The direction of travel established in the last set of reforms is being heavily reversed here, particularly in the CMO report which takes us backwards to a world of overproduction and guaranteed pricing. Parliament’s desire to delay the ending of sugar quotas is symptomatic of this backward thinking. As for greening, I am all for well-funded agri-environment schemes, but the kindergarten approach put forward by the Commission in its original report and then tinkered with by Parliament will not deliver. It was unambitious micro-managing when it was first proposed and it has not been improved by the committee. In my own Member State, particularly in England, I can confidently predict that the new system will deliver a nightmare scenario of administrative changes, new mapping requirements, confusion and resentment. This surely cannot be in anyone’s interest – not the farmer, not the taxpayer and, above all, not the consumer. We have an opportunity to improve food production efficiency and protect and enhance our environment. Instead, we have seen naked self-interest manifested in issues such as supporting a lack of transparency of recipients of payments, exemption of farmers from basic European competition regulation, the reintroduction of subsidy for tobacco and many more unpalatable elements. I do welcome some elements – those on cross-compliance, proportionality and sheep EID to name two – but I shall be working my way through this voting list with a heavy heart, reflecting on a lost opportunity."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Julie Girling (ECR ). -"1
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