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We are very disappointed that the various proposals that we tabled were rejected. This led us to vote against the final report, although we agree with, and voted for, a number of the rapporteur’s proposals.
We are dismayed that the main measure proposed in the Commission communication for regulating supply and demand in the winemaking sector is the grubbing up of 400 000 hectares of vine, which will reduce production and jobs will be lost. This will in turn serve to exacerbate the desertification of vast areas, as has already happened in Portugal, and to place the wine and alcohol sector into the hands of a few major producers and large companies.
These are measures aimed at reducing the EU’s vineyards, which would affect primarily the least developed regions, family holdings and farmers on low incomes, but they will have little impact on the rise in imports and the declining role of winemaking in the EU Member States.
We shall continue to defend our proposals and to combat the Commission’s proposal to liberalise the sector. What we are proposing is a different type of reform of the common organisation of the market in wine that values sustainable winemaking, the traditional characteristics of winemaking, small and medium-sized farming and family farming, the sector’s social and cultural role, and its important contribution towards regional and national development."@en1
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