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"Madam President, our rapporteur did an excellent job. It was a difficult topic to deal with in the middle of this crisis which has struck the vegetable and fruit sector in certain parts of Europe. I subscribe to that analysis, and we must also use that analysis in the forthcoming WTO negotiations so that we can adopt a firm stance in favour of those products which do not enjoy market protection. These, too, must be protected.
The second point I would like to highlight is the position of the producers. I subscribe to the rapporteur’s plea to intensify support for the producers and to strengthen their position, and I consider these initiatives to be essential. For in the present commotion caused by buying-in organisations which operate on behalf of supermarkets, the question could gradually arise of whether there might not be too much merging and amalgamating on the part of these organisations, and of whether the latter might not slowly but surely be securing monopoly positions for themselves.
There is only one possible answer to this: the producer organisations need to adopt a more powerful stance and improve the way in which they are organised. In my view, this would be more effective than injecting more money into the sector. The sector must secure a stronger market position. And I must also say that, in my view, this is more effective, especially with regard to vegetables and fruit, as well as delicate products which need to be sold quickly.
I would like to make a number of observations with regard to the distribution of processing and threshold quotas across the countries. I have noticed that these are not evenly distributed on a number of counts. And I am also expecting the rapporteur to produce an oral amendment tomorrow with regard to at least one of the countries involved in the processing of pears. But if you consider the distribution across the Southern countries, for example the position of Portugal compared to other countries, one can ask oneself whether this distribution is even in every respect.
In principle, I would like to say, and in that sense I would also like to follow the line adopted by our spokesperson, Mrs Rodondo, that it is essential to strengthen the position of producers and for producer organisations to become stronger, because I can tell you, this is necessary; they must secure a firmer foothold in the market, and the policy will need to be drafted to that effect. While we have a common organisation of the market and claim, on the one hand, that we do not want more money injected into it, this will only be effective if we, on the other hand, also consider the production side and possibly a certain level of control of this. But in this report, I am precisely in favour of strengthening producer organisations, also by way of responding to this report."@en1
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