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Mrs Hautala’s report on the quality of petrol and diesel will have serious financial consequences for farms and forestry sites, for several reasons.
First of all, by extending the fuel quality standards applying to all road vehicles to non-road mobile machinery (farm and forestry tractors in particular). In my opinion, this measure comes under the Non-Road Mobile Machinery Directive. Secondly, by lowering sulphur levels for non-road mobile machinery, which will result in a price increase of 8 to 10% per litre. This measure, by increasing the number of different qualities of diesel on the market, will pose considerable logistical problems without providing any real environmental benefit. Finally, by using a new category of fuel in agriculture, forcing farmers to change their storage tanks, it will mean an extra cost of around EUR 5 000 per farm.
These proposals will result in new burdens that are too much for a sector that has already been weakened by health crises, and which is awaiting the new CAP guidelines. In order to avoid ending up ruining an agricultural sector that has already been severely blighted, non-road mobile machinery should have been excluded from the scope of application of the directive and we should have kept to the Council’s realistic position."@en1
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