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"Madam President, first of all I would like to thank all of you for all your valuable comments. I think that we see the complexity of this issue from the comments delivered here today. I would just like to make a few comments.
First of all, I am convinced that what is now proposed – which I would describe as a big carrot for the sector – will work. The carrot is quite attractive because we now give farmers the possibility of getting 10% of the restructuring fund, and the restructuring fund for the year 2008/09 is EUR 625. EUR 62.5 plus the top-up that we pay from the restructuring money – EUR 237.5 – comes to EUR 300 per tonne that the farmers send back to the Commission.
What I consider the most important thing is that, for the first time, farmers can trigger the restructuring fund. This has not been possible before. Previously it was only the industry. Now farmers can say ‘I want to leave and I want my EUR 300 per tonne, and I get the compensation for the reduction in prices on top of that’. And that is not a one-off payment: that continues.
I completely agree with Mr Parish. I think that the alternative to sugar beet production is much more attractive now than it has been for decades, with the cereal prices, with the oil-seed prices. Therefore, I presume that farmers will make their calculations and look at the bottom line of the most attractive way of arranging their future production.
I mentioned retroactivity the first time that I spoke. Retroactivity is there so that those who have delivered from the very beginning will not be punished; they will be compensated. It is for beet growers, for inulin syrup producers and for chicory growers. So there is no difference between the various types of beet production.
So I am confident, and I am very thankful for the quick reaction from Parliament, which I hope will allow us to find a political agreement in the Council tomorrow so we can send a clear signal to the sector, to the beet growers, so they can start planning their next production season.
I am quite sure that this will be to the benefit of the whole sector because, as was also mentioned here today, the alternative to not using this possibility will be a linear cut with no compensation. So I am quite sure that lots of calculations will take place on the various farms and areas where this may be attractive, to deliver the tonnes that we need to find the right balance in our sugar sector.
Once again, thank you very much – especially to the rapporteur, Ms Batzeli – for all the work done on this difficult dossier."@en1
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