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"Mr President, promoting the cultivation of plant proteins in the European Union is one of the key issues on which the present and the future of European agriculture and food safety hinge. I therefore consider it to be extremely appropriate, Mr President, that both Commissioner Byrne, who is responsible for food safety, and the Commissioner for Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr Fischler, have attended this debate. The European Parliament has reflected the importance of the matter and has dedicated extensive debates to it as well as two parliamentary hearings.
As a consequence of all of this, wills have been united and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development voted in favour of this report with an extremely broad consensus, and it today comes before the plenary without a single amendment. I congratulate Mr Stevenson on his magnificent work.
The Commission ought to accept this extremely representative vote and this unity of position because, Mr Fischler, the position of the European Parliament is quite clearly reflected in paragraph 3, which says ‘The European Parliament recommends that the development of
EU plant protein production should be encouraged to reduce its
reliance on imports and to sustain the multi-functionality of Community agriculture’
In order for this position to develop to its full potential and to become a reality, it is absolutely crucial for the Commission to implement what is asked of it in paragraph 5: ‘...the Commission should fund an extensive research and development programme’ because unless it does fund a programme into the increased genetic and yield potential, utilisation and nutritive value of fodder
legumes and grain legumes as key protein providers within the EU, what we will have are words rather than deeds.
Similarly, Mr President, Recitals F and I draw attention to the Mediterranean areas, which Commissioner Fischler very frequently overlooks. It has been said more than once in today’s plenary sitting that he must review this position, because these areas must receive aid for this purpose too, so that the production of grain legumes for livestock breeding in the Mediterranean areas of the European Union can also have highly beneficial effects.
Lastly, Mr President, I wish to note the importance of the suggestion made in Recital D that we must take account of the difficulties currently facing Argentina, in order not to make that country’s situation worse."@en1
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