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lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would say this to the Minister: as a proud Scot speaking to a fellow Social Democratic, ecological, northern European nation, I really want to be constructive and friendly towards you, but I am afraid I am embarrassed on your behalf that you are having to defend a situation that is entirely inexcusable. It is a remarkable situation for us as the legislature to find ourselves in, and you as President to be defending. Less-favoured-area status is of crucial importance to vast swathes of European territory. In Scotland, as we have heard, 85% of our territory is less-favoured area, and for our farmers LFA reform is actually more relevant and more important than CAP reform in its totality. So this is crucial; this is not a subsidiary issue, it is absolutely relevant to how we manage our environment and how we produce food across vast swathes of European territory. In Scotland we have done our modelling and our mapping. We lose precisely 622 square km under the new criteria; we gain, according to the Farmers’ Union, 5 536 square kilometres, so we are proceeding on the basis of knowledge, facts, transparency and openness and all the things that the Scottish and Danish governments want to see. The idea that in this Chamber we are operating blind as to the implications of these new criteria for vast swathes of our territory is simply inexcusable and is not a basis on which we can proceed, so I too would back calls from colleagues for this information, the importance of which we identified in the Dorfmann report. We cannot proceed without this information and I will not proceed without it. So we must have this information now."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Alyn Smith,"1 "on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group."1
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