Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-04-19-Speech-4-546-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-04-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:What is 'locally produced' food? (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120419.22.4-546-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-04-19-Speech-4-547-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Herbert Dorfmann2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ECON (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Südtiroler Volkspartei (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PETI (2012-04-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is beyond doubt that locally produced foods enjoy great popularity. However, the proportion of the total food market made up by these short-chain products should not be overestimated. This proportion remains very small. The future of European agriculture and food distribution also cannot lie in a general return to local market stalls and direct sales. The common agricultural policy has sought, in recent years, to promote the aggregation of farmers in the form of producer organisations and thus to develop a counterweight to the increasingly concentrated food retail industry. This necessarily brings with it longer supply chains. However, it is very much the case that individual businesses do offer short chains, and that is also something that consumers want. It therefore seems to me all the more important that the abuse of this consumer desire should also be prevented. The fact is that there is not currently any definition of what ‘local production’ is, and furthermore there is also a lack of general inspections; instead there are only voluntarily organised inspections by individual groups of direct sellers. The question also occurs to me, however, of whether it serves a purpose or indeed is possible to create European rules in this connection. The European panorama is diverse in this regard, and I think it makes more sense to leave this definition to the individual groups of suppliers, who then also communicate their rules. There is another point that I would just like to mention. With its protection of designations of origin, the European Union has created a very clear regulatory system for geographical designations. If we were to now attempt to authorise a new parallel regional system of designations, the result would be the construction of a parallel system and the irritation of consumers. The reality then would be the advent of a new form of parochial thinking on foodstuffs. Ultimately, that is not something we need."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1
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