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"Madam President, in the wake of the food scandals that have rocked consumer confidence on a regular basis, anything that makes it possible to rebuild that confidence is to be welcomed, provided that the measures in question do not involve enormous costs for local farmers. It is a well-known fact that, over recent years, input costs have risen disproportionately in relation to agricultural earnings. In an environment of rising rents for forage land, rising feed and fuel prices and other similar developments, official regulations, including where they would be welcome in principle – for environmental protection reasons or for consumer confidence and food safety – will tip small farmers in particular over the edge, right across Europe.
With that in mind, the European Union has, in my view, drawn the right conclusions from the consultation, namely, that compulsory electronic identification would have entailed economic disadvantages for some farmers, and that is something that we do not want to see."@en1
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