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lpv:speaker	lp:João Ferreira2
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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, as you know, I had two minutes as author of this question. I should therefore like to know, how much time do I have for this speech? I should like, first of all, to mention the context of this debate. By excluding socio-economic factors, the recategorisation of the less-favoured areas proposed in 2005 is harmful to some of the poorest regions of the European Union. Clearly, small and medium-sized farmers and family farming are hit even harder. The European Commission insists on using a number of means to deny them the role that they must play in the future of European farming. This has subverted the concept of the less-favoured area. The current definition ignores an entire dimension other than the biophysical: the socioeconomic dimension. This dimension cannot be ignored, at the risk of exacerbating even further the existing inequalities and injustices in distribution of common agricultural policy (CAP) funds between countries and producers. It is therefore necessary, not just to retain, but to expand and diversify socioeconomic criteria in terms of indicators of desertification and rural flight. The Commission has appointed a panel of experts to define biophysical criteria, but it forgot to include representatives of the various Member States therein; it should have, as it acknowledged in a question that I asked it in 2010. No expert from any Portuguese institution was included in this panel, and that is true for the overwhelming majority of Member States. The dangers are obvious. The diversity of existing situations means that the complexity of setting out uniform criteria could, once again, result in some benefiting at the expense of others. A key issue in this CAP reform remains unaddressed: the need to ensure the fair distribution of CAP funds that guarantees each country its right to production and its right to food sovereignty."@en1
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