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"Madam President, I should first like to thank Mr Bautista Ojeda for his excellent report. I am sure he knows he can rely on total support from my group.
It would be hard to name an issue preceded by more Parliamentary initiatives during the last twelve years. The House has witnessed the same debate time and again during this period. The principles are unchanged, but the situation on the ground has worsened. Turkish economic policy recently caused an artificial fall in the price of hazelnuts and other agricultural products in response to internal pressures.
This is not a new problem, but it escalated because the Commission failed to tackle it in its proposals. I do not believe the Commission’s suggestion, namely transferring the nuts problem to rural development, is realistic. This might have been said in the Committee on Agriculture. A problem related to the market should be dealt with using the appropriate tools. It is unwise to keep resorting to the second pillar to solve all our difficulties.
For the last twelve years, the House has been advocating an honourable solution for this sector of production which is experiencing very specific problems. The Commission’s response has been simply to grant extensions to a regime that does not deal with the problems the sector needs to overcome. The permanent solution put forward by the House on a number of occasions has been ignored.
One might well wonder whether sometimes the nub of the problem is not in fact the Commission’s lack of resolve when it comes to proposing effective measures to deal with the difficulties facing the nuts sector, rather than the difficulties themselves. For my part, Commissioner, I hope that is not so on this occasion."@en1
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