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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Effects of the summer heatwave2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030901.5.1-073"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-01-Speech-1-0742
lpv:speaker	lp:Albert Jan Maat2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; AGRI (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I too should like to start by expressing my solidarity with my southern European fellow MEPs. I am also pleased that the Commission has done so too, but it clearly demonstrates that the disaster that has struck there calls for European solidarity. Europe should therefore show what it can do on the social front. I should also like to highlight another issue in this debate. It is unacceptable that the Commission should derive financial gain from the drought which is hitting European agriculture so hard. This is a likely scenario, particularly in the area of potato growing for processing, to mention one example. It is expected that the yield in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Austria will be a few dozen percentage points down on the annual average. In contrast to other products, such as ware potatoes, this scarcity will not lead to high prices. The CDA delegation in this House would like to invite the Commission, in the short term, to take stock of the amount by which production is lagging behind the preset quota and of the financial gain this produces. For example, a loss in production of 25% translates into a saving for the Commission to the tune of EUR 30 million, because for this crop, as for a number of other crops, the premium is directly linked to the yield. It is useful to bring this to your attention for these reasons alone, particularly since a 40% decoupling is envisaged in 2004 for those crops. This means that the premiums will then no longer be determined by the yield. It is likely that precisely this system will to some extent be used as early as in 2003. In addition, the CDA delegation in this House is of the opinion that the Commission should initiate a European strategy discussion about quantitative water management. Qualitatively speaking, European water policy has been a success, but given that floods and water shortages have followed each other in such quick succession for a number of years now, it is necessary for us to do what is needed in the area of effective water management with a view to a future strategy."@en1

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