Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-12-11-Speech-2-075"
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"Madam President, guaranteed EU support to farmers should be provided under the common agricultural policy for the years 2007 to 2013. And that is why I cannot accept that Commission should attempt to scale down this guarantee by means of its recently announced ‘Health Check’. The Commission is seeking to cut back the amount of direct payments to farmers to less than 13%. This breach of the guarantee is, to my mind, unacceptable because farmers have entered into set-aside arrangements for those years and it would not be right to go back on them.
As regards standards, what I would say is this: if they are to be enforced throughout the EU, they should apply equally to the food brought into the EU – and farmers all over Europe should not be subjected to pointless checks.
We should look at the standard applying to the food that we allow into Europe, and the Commission should take action, instead of bothering farmers, who are doing their best in all parts of Europe, and that certainly includes my country, Ireland."@en1
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