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The rice sector is currently experiencing difficulties as a result of the imbalances triggered by the simultaneous increase in internal production and the rise in imports, due to the preferences and customs reductions of recent years. This situation is likely to get worse with the fall in customs tariffs resulting from implementation of the ‘Everything but Arms’ initiative, with the forthcoming WTO round and with the possibilities of ‘triangulation’ and abuses of inward processing arrangements.
There is, furthermore, a conflict of interest between the producer Member States of the South and the consumer Member States of northern Europe, whose consumers tend to prefer the Indian variety of rice, of which the EU is in short supply.
This proposal for a regulation is unacceptable. The Commission is proposing a 50% reduction in the basic intervention price to a basic price of EUR 150 per tonne, compensation at a level of 88% of that applied to cereals under previous reforms and a limit on quantity, overlooking the specific characteristics of this monoculture, which is concentrated in areas that have specific characteristics, with no opportunity for alternative production. The proposal also overlooks the fact that this crop entails some of the highest costs in the farming sector in terms of investment in machinery, equipment and installations, which are mostly custom-made. This means that forcing rice-growers to change crops would cause them serious financial difficulties.
We have therefore sided with the rapporteur."@en1
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