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The principle of decoupling direct aid, whether totally, as the European Commission wishes, or partially, to ‘start with’, as the Cunha report recommends, is a bad one. It will make the CAP even more complex and bureaucratic. We need to completely move away from direct aid to farmers being ‘compensatory’ for drops in prices and income that have been inflicted on them by previous reforms. This disconnects the aid from agriculture and therefore renders it unjustifiable in the eyes of taxpayers. It prevents the COMs, as tools for monitoring and guiding production, from being effective, and weakens Europe’s negotiating position at the WTO. It is true that when the Commission wants to destroy a common policy, it tends to use the strategy of implementing a reform that is so unworkable and unsustainable that it is simply a step towards the complete disappearance of the public policy which it was intended to adapt.
The only point that I am satisfied with is the adoption of my amendment on energy and industrial crops on set-aside land, which should enable the emerging sectors to be consolidated."@en1
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