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"Mr President, honourable Members, I have listened carefully to your various comments. I would like to highlight what I said in my introduction and, in particular, respond to Mr Lyon. The Commission will support Parliament every time it is legally possible to do so, in accordance with Articles 290 and 291. Article 290 states that delegated acts are applied to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of the legislative act. Article 291, as you have said, gives the Commission the unique opportunity to ensure the uniform application of basic acts. This is the spirit in which we are working and it is the same spirit that I hope we will work in to find definitive formulas and an agreement. Mr Nicholson, who is no longer here, spoke about the growing tensions between Parliament and the Commission. In any case, I can assure you that I will not fuel these tensions. I think that it is in everyone’s interests – those of both farmers and European consumers and citizens, as Mr Olejniczak said – to reach an agreement. With regard to the regulations on organic farming, which Ms Patrão Neves mentioned, I am ready to find a solution which includes Parliament in the procedure concerning the decision on substances. However, we must also evaluate producers’ interest in organic farming. How can we do this without overcomplicating and prolonging the decision-making process for a substance? For this reason, I am proposing a compromise of analysing, within the framework of the adaptation of the basic regulation on organic farming, whether we should now provide more specifically for criteria on the basis of which we could choose whether or not to approve the introduction of a substance. Once these criteria are more precise, following ordinary legislative procedure, and only on the basis of these criteria, the Commission could present implementing acts to limit its role simply to the application of criteria which will already be integrated into the basic act. There is also the other possibility that you mentioned of attaching the list of substances as an annex to the basic act, but that means applying ordinary legislative procedure for each substance, which risks considerably delaying the adoption process. If we manage to agree on a package of criteria in the basic act for the adoption of these substances, I hope that we will succeed in ensuring that Parliament has its place in this procedure. I propose working on these options in order to find a compromise and I hope that we will find one fairly quickly after tomorrow’s vote."@en1
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