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Mr President, I believe that both the Commission and Ms Riemers have lost touch with reality a little. Anyone suggesting that this is not a crisis, just a seasonal surplus, has obviously not been watching the markets in recent months. We have witnessed a worldwide increase in production, with a rise of 3.5 % in the USA, 10 % in New Zealand and 3 % in Europe, even though sales are stagnating. I fail to understand how this phenomenon can be explained away as a seasonal surplus.
We are on the verge of a crisis. We cannot wait for prices to reach a level of EUR 0.20, in other words until intervention becomes necessary. We need to respond now, because the recent crisis, as everyone must be aware, has cost us EUR 500 million in export subsidies and direct assistance to farmers. Do we intend providing funding again if we find ourselves in the same situation? I believe that this is quite impossible.
Hence my question: where do the Commission’s responsibilities lie? I am confused to hear the Commission continue to claim that the quota is not filled, so that there is no scope for changing the rules, nor is this necessary. The quota increase was part of the problem because it brought more volume onto the market. The fact that we still have no answer for what is to happen after 2015 is proof of the poverty of ideas among the Commission and the Council, because milk producers will be abandoned to their fate. The dairy package that we have agreed is in danger of complete failure, because by the time we get around to helping the producers there will only be a few of them left. On the other hand, the dairies and retailers are becoming increasingly concentrated, so that dairy farmers have fewer and fewer ways to influence the market price. For this reason, I should like to ask why the Commission does not respond by bringing its report on the dairy sector forward by one year. Why not discuss market regulations for the period beyond 2015 now? The Commission has still failed to provide an answer in this regard. What we are saying quite clearly is that markets require regulation and this is particularly the case in the dairy market. As long as we ignore this fact in discussions, we are steering a course directly towards a new milk crisis."@en1
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