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"Mr President, there was some concern, both in London and Holyrood, when the Commissioner published the legislative proposals which missed out the inclusion of the voluntary modulation powers. Clearly, both in England and in Scotland, without the ability to top-slice single farm payments and switch the money into rural development, the rural development programmes, both in England and Scotland, would have huge financial black holes in them for the year 2013.
Thankfully, as a result of the strong lobbying of the Commission by both the UK and Scottish Governments, and with the assistance of my colleagues here in Parliament – Luis Capoulas Santos, Paolo De Castro, Jim Nicholson, etc. – we have managed to insert them back into the package. That will give some reassurance that both the United Kingdom and Scottish Governments now have the power to decide whether they want to top-slice farmers’ single farm payments and switch the money in order to plug that financial black hole in the rural development programmes in 2013.
I would like to thank Luis and Paolo for their cooperation. I wish you well, Luis. I hope the next two legislative packages go as smoothly and as speedily as this one has, but I somehow have my doubts."@en1
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