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"Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by congratulating José Bové on his excellent work, which clearly demonstrates the importance of keeping producers at the heart of the matter, for although we are well aware of the three stakeholders involved, namely, the producers, the large processing companies or small-scale processors, and the distributors, only the producers are suffering today. The two other large sectors are concentrated, highly concentrated in fact. That is the case for the distribution sector. Producers, however, are relatively deprived and very dispersed. We therefore have to try to organise them as we have just done with the report on milk by Mr Nicholson. We tried to give them more power. I do not think that that is enough. In my view, there will be two important aspects. The first is that they will have to be organised but monitored by the public authority because – as one of my colleagues just said – we will need a body to monitor prices and margins as the public authority alone can ensure a balance between the various stakeholders. The second, in my opinion, is that we will have to stop treating competition as sacrosanct. What is important, above all, is the welfare of each of the stakeholders in the food chain, which ensures the welfare of all. That takes priority over the rules of competition."@en1
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