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"Mr President, I would like to start by welcoming the President-in-Office of the Council and by asking three pertinent questions relating to Parliament’s committees.
My first question concerns the decision-making process for the common agricultural policy, which casts the European Parliament in a marginal and purely consultative role. Now, at a time when the CAP is increasingly being seen as a rural policy, as the main pillar of land-use planning, and as a means of protecting the environment, our heritage and jobs, it is unthinkable that Parliament should have a purely consultative role, which, apart from anything else, means that it is excluded from decision making on 40% of the EU budget.
My second question is about the need to speed up the establishment of the recently announced European food safety agency. It is important to be clear about whether we are solely concerned with the European risk assessment and risk management body or whether we are trying to substantially strengthen the common food quality and safety policy, including veterinary actions. If that is the case, there will have to be a considerable increase in resources, either at European Union or Member State level. And if the latter is the real option, which I judge to be the case, then I have to say that I am not happy about the European Commission’s announcement last week, in which the main approach seemed to be to create “another” scientific body, without any powers, and isolated from any joint campaign on all fronts and in all parts of the agriculture and food chain.
The third question which I would like to raise concerns the fisheries agreement between the European Union and Morocco. I really am concerned that the Commission is getting the negotiations off to such a slow start, and I am equally worried about the Council’s slowness in conducting this process. And I have to say that I am also worried that I cannot find any reference to speeding up negotiations on this agreement anywhere in the Portuguese Presidency’s programme. I have, on the other hand, seen a reference in the programme to examining the cost-benefit analyses for fisheries agreements with third countries, which is usually the argument used in the European Union by people opposing the fisheries agreements between the EU and third countries. I would welcome a reply from the presidency on the questions that I have just asked."@en1
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