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"Mr President, fruit and vegetable cultivation carry significant weight within agriculture. In this sector, it is especially important that producers act jointly, as it is an essential condition for market success, but it requires the development of organised cooperation. However, the degree of organisation is very low in the ten new Member States, and forming producer organisations (hereafter PO’s) is a long and tedious process.
It is therefore vital to support PO subsidy, and especially to encourage the formation of PO’s and provide additional support for newly-formed PO’s. For this reason it would be necessary to increase the current ceiling of contributions in proportion to sales revenue from 4.1% to 6%. It is of crucial importance to coordinate market measures (first pillar) with rural development (second pillar). The European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund allocations would not sufficiently finance infrastructure and investment development, therefore, rural development funding should be made available to PO’s.
The fruit and vegetable sector in the new Member States requires restructuring. There are many old orchards, especially apple orchards, which have an impact on the EU market by driving the prices down as a result of poor quality produce, creating a crisis situation on the European fruit and vegetable market. Therefore, it is important that the EU gives support to clear and restructure old plantations. Just like the case of the school milk programme, subsidised by EU funds, a scheme promoting fruit consumption in schools should be introduced in order to stabilise the fruit and vegetable market.
There are many strategically important products that are not able to receive market support within today’s framework. In the case of berries, sour cherry and mushrooms, stronger crisis management measures are warranted. They need to be included among processed products, and we must also appeal for the protection of sweet corn against Chinese imports. I thank Commissioner Boel for her letter, and I hope a solution has been found."@en1
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