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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Processed fruit and vegetables2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.13.3-315"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-3162
lpv:speaker	lp:Michl Ebner2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-01-24--2000-11-14)3 unknown; Südtiroler Volkspartei (Partito popolare sudtirolese) (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-09-01--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-06)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have great sympathy for the efforts being made by the Commission and the Commissioner to make savings, which is quite justifiable. But without wishing to indulge in special pleading, the situation in the fruit and vegetable sector is visibly deteriorating. Growth in volume, imports from third countries, fluctuations in consumption – be it in quantity or quality – are the most important reasons for this. The situation is becoming more critical, even if it is not as critical as Mr Martinez says. For example, you can live very well from 40 hectares in the area I come from, the South Tyrol. So it is not quite that bad, but nevertheless … For example, when you consider that the fruit and vegetable sector is allocated 3.8% of the relevant budget, as compared with the 41% allocated to arable crops, then you cannot help feeling that a decimal point might have been put in the wrong place. Unfortunately, the decimal point is in the right place. We are talking about just 3.8%. This is a handicap that works to the advantage of another agricultural sector, that is arable crops, where there is surely more room for manoeuvre than in the case of fruit and vegetables. International trade agreements are to some extent at the expense of this fruit and vegetable sector and therefore benefit other sectors. I believe that this additional financial restriction will be hard to cope with and I hope that the Commissioner, the Commission and the Council will have the insight to make sure that a third handicap is not added to the two existing ones simply because of a desire to make additional savings in a particular way here, and that Parliament's wishes and proposals and those of the rapporteur and of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development will be taken into account."@en1

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