Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-09-Speech-2-055"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2000 discharges2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020409.3.2-055"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-09-Speech-2-0562
lpv:speaker	lp:Paulo Casaca2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; CONT (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I wish to congratulate all our rapporteurs on their excellent work and to offer my sincere thanks to the Commission for its cooperation. I should like to emphasise the constructive and genuinely European attitude demonstrated by our fellow Member, Mr McCartin, and the support given by the staff of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture. The McCartin report is an important part of the process of reforming the common policy. I hope that the remaining European institutions take due account of this, preparing the necessary measures for the phasing out of refunds for farm exports and ensuring that these refunds are used instead for the purpose laid down by the Treaty, which is to ensure a reasonable standard of living for the rural population. I should like to say, however, that where fraud in the food industry is concerned, we need to go considerably further. Speaking of dairy products – a sector that is quite crucial to the Azores – I cannot accept a situation in which farmers live in a state of constant fear of being fined for overproduction while European criminal organisations are falsifying tens of thousands of tons of butter with the complicity of the major European dairy product groups and while the dairy industry is receiving subsidies for powdered milk, which is basically whey, while major dairy produce companies are selling the equivalent of hundreds of millions of litres of what purport to be dairy products, but are, in fact, counterfeit products that are not made from milk. Nor can I accept that the Commission has had very little or nothing to say on this issue! In addition, if we look at other fields, such as oil, wine, or even meat, the picture is not very different. Fraud in the food industry, which is often perpetrated in order to obtain export or disposal refunds, is now one of the greatest problems facing the budgetary control of agriculture. We therefore urge the Commission to rapidly establish an initiative in this field that will enable this state of affairs to be brought to an end."@en1

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