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"Madam President, honourable Member, when it comes to applying Europe's common agricultural policy, there has, right from the beginning, been a fully recognised principle whereby account should be taken of the special character of agriculture and of the structurally conditioned differences between the various areas of the EU – from Finland in the north to the southernmost tip of Italy. If need be, these dimensions might, moreover, be taken into account with the help of State aid.
It is currently permitted to grant State aid for the production and processing of various agricultural products listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty, if three different criteria are fulfilled. Firstly, the conditions of competition must not be repudiated. Secondly, the aid must be in keeping with the common agricultural policy in general and, thirdly, such aid must of course be compatible with the international commitments we have entered into. In this connection, I could mention our WTO agreement on agriculture.
At the November European Council, the agricultural ministers laid down the political strategy for reforming the common EU policy on sugar. According to this agreement, it will be possible to grant limited and specific State aid of no more than EUR 350 per hectare to sugar beet producers in Finland, with a maximum of EUR 90 million per year being specifically targeted at the EU’s ‘outermost regions’. It was also decided that those Member States that reduce their sugar quotas by more than 50% be given the opportunity to receive temporary aid for a transitional period of five years, calculated from that production year in which they make a start on reducing their quotas or in which they reduce their quotas to below 50%. In the case of Italy, it has already been possible to grant such transitional aid, corresponding to approximately EUR 11 per tonne of sugar beet per production year. It has primarily been earmarked for the transport of beet.
The reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP reform), adopted in 2003 in accordance with the decisions in the agricultural sphere previously taken in Berlin, Gothenburg and Brussels, is now in the process of being implemented. In the new Member States, the reform clearly lies within the budget framework for the enlarged EU, laid down in Brussels in 2002. In connection with the adoption of the CAP reform, there has been no desire whatsoever to renationalise European agricultural policy."@en1
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