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"Mr President, I should like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Graefe zu Baringsdorf, for his work on the report on risk and crisis management in agriculture. We live at a time when a lot of damage is caused as a result of natural disasters ranging from major floods to drought and fires. Also fresh in our memories is the huge amount of expenditure incurred by Europe as a result of infectious diseases in animals and efforts to eradicate and combat these. We wish to continue with the liberalisation of the EU’s agricultural policy in the current WTO negotiations. The CAP reform was a large and important step in that direction. I do not, however, think that the Commission has shown a sufficient sense of urgency about coming up with proposals for eliminating or reducing risks and for averting crises and outbreaks of disease that we could well do without.
Who is to cover the losses due to future outbreaks of disease? How is the market to be regulated and managed, especially in those areas of the EU that are not affected by disease but that are nonetheless hit by no longer being able as easily to export foodstuffs? Why has the Commission not put proposals on the table concerning the provision of insurance cover by private and mutual insurance companies – something requested by the European Parliament as long as two years ago?
The many different insurance facilities that exist are used in agriculture and by the food industry on a daily basis. This area must therefore be investigated very quickly with a view to devising cover for the large losses that the agricultural budget will not in future be able to cover. Finally, I should like to say very clearly that we do not want to go back to the State aid or disguised State aid of earlier times."@en1
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