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Mr President, Mr Cioloş, ladies and gentlemen, as in the case of the other two areas just referred to, we have also had to go into second reading on the subject of organic farming. This is regrettable, but we have held two trialogues and, in substantive terms, we have not made much progress. Although the atmosphere was pleasant and we were able to agree on many points, sadly, we could not reach agreement on the key issues.
To give you some of the history: on 1 June last year, the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development voted with a large majority to accept the report for amendment. After this, we began the negotiations, held preliminary talks with the Polish Presidency and then started discussions with the Danish Presidency. We made no progress on two points, which concerned the criteria for certain products and substances. We could not come to an agreement in these areas.
We did not rely solely on our own opinion. We also obtained the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs, which clearly stated that these two articles were legal acts that came under the heading of delegated acts. This relates to Article 290, which regulates what this concerns and which clearly involves applying delegated acts. This is not a question of how something is regulated. Instead, a mandatory regulation is being introduced which is binding in the same manner across the entire European Union.
We in Parliament understand that the Council naturally wants to be involved. We have repeatedly emphasised in the negotiations that we understand this and have submitted compromise proposals which went in the right direction, in other words, we have said that experts on a national level should be included. We have proposed incorporating the substances into the basic acts and we believe that this will work, because there have only been a total of two amendments in four years. Therefore, this is very much a practical solution.
On the subject of the entire procedure, I would like to say, and I endorse Mr De Castro’s criticism in this respect, that the Commission changed its approach to the delegated acts during the trialogue meetings and then spoke out in favour of implementing acts. We have not been able to understand this and it has led to many differences of opinion. Then a vague offer was made that we would simply be kept informed when amendments were introduced. From our perspective, just providing us with information cannot be conclusive. We have a right to delegated acts and we will reinforce this right during first reading. We hope that the Commission makes practical proposals which will allow us to enter into further negotiations with the Cypriot Presidency."@en1
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