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dcterms:Date	"2013-06-11"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:James Nicholson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, can I first of all thank Mr Capoulas Santos for undertaking this report in the midst of intensive CAP negotiations. I have to say to him that he really is a glutton for punishment. I thought he would have had enough to deal with without actually taking on board this report as well, and certainly it put extra pressure on us in the agricultural field within the European context. Total CAP expenditure has now reached the point at which financial discipline must be applied in order to ensure that spending remains within the allocated budget of the MFF Council conclusions. Unfortunately the result of the vote in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) leaves us with an adjustment rate and a threshold which will have a disproportionate and negative effect on farmers in many Member States across the European Union. With the threshold of EUR 5 000 proposed in the report, 80 % of people would be excluded from financial discipline. Now I do not know about you, but I would find it extremely difficult to justify to any of the farmers that I represent why 20 % of them will be required to cover the deficit which is incurred because of spending which could be attributed to 100 % of the Member States and 100 % of the farmers. We should not support a measure which will undoubtedly lead to such extreme inequalities between farmers and between Member States, and it certainly destroys any hope of a level playing field. On the Direct Payments Regulation which is currently part of the CAP reform dossier, this Parliament voted to delete the financial discipline threshold. The objective of this mandate was to ensure that the burden of financial discipline is shared equally and fairly between farmers across the European Union. That, Mr President, is what I think we should do and that is what I think the Commissioner should do, because I think that this proposal is totally unfair, totally inadequate and totally unacceptable."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Ulster Conservatives and Unionists-New Force (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2012-03-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; REGI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; AGRI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CRIM (2012-03-28--2013-10-23)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"James Nicholson,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group"1
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