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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, would like to thank Mr Nicholson for this report, which he wrote and on which he also led the negotiations in the trialogue. I would also like to thank all those who helped to bring this compromise about. Commissioner, the direction is the right one, but the impact in the Member States will vary enormously. In Germany, this dairy package will have hardly any impact. We already have producer associations under our Market Structure Act. Many farmers in Germany are organised into cooperatives, which means that they already jointly market their milk and dairy products. Contractual dealings in Germany are regulated by statute. In the private sector, we even already have these supply contracts. Unfortunately, this dairy package will not enable us to solve fundamental problems. This dairy package regulates dealings between producers and dairies. The biggest problem that I see, however, is in the relationship between the dairies and the retailers. This is not some kind of accusation against the parties involved. Nor, as landowners, are we responsible for this, but I ask you, Commissioner, to use your influence in the Commission to ensure that we regulate further issues on the basis of this dairy package, for example the issue of terms of payment for dairy products. It is not acceptable for farmers to deliver products to dairies – fresh milk expires after three days – and for the chain stores to only pay up after 60 or 80 days. Regulation is needed here. A second point is the listing fees, the discounts, that have to be granted here. We need binding net-net prices in the dairy sector so that transparency prevails in the sector. The supply volume rules are not binding, the length of contract with fixed prices between dairies and retail must be regulated. There is thus still much to do. However, my group, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), will certainly be voting in favour of this dairy package with a large majority."@en1
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