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Madam President, for many members of the Committee on Agriculture, today’s debate on voluntary modulation, that is to say, on restricting direct payments, is an occasion for a resounding NO to the European Commission’s plans.
We say NO to attempts to discriminate against farmers and make them bear the cost of the rural development programme, for which sufficient funding should be found from the European Union’s budget.
In this debate, there has been talk about the possibility of discriminating against farmers, which is against the treaties, re-nationalisation of the common agricultural policy, and distortion of competition. I would like to remind you that in many of the new Member States, farmers were subjected to discrimination during the accession period, and free competition was indeed restricted in farming. For many years the new Members received lower subsidies. These subsidies are only likely to become equal to those received by the old Member States by the time the general cuts in CAP expenditure come into effect. Excluding beneficiaries receiving less than EUR 5 000 from the modulation is hard to understand. These payments go to small farms. If at the end of the day some form of restrictions on payments is introduced, the ceiling should be raised to EUR 50 000. Larger farms are more easily able to deal with the loss of subsidies."@en1
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