production aid

It is time to move towards a shift from production aid to agricultural policy.

We cannot answer for the replacement of production aids.

When the foundation engages to support an event it does so through production aids.

All production aid should be stopped and transferred to holdings under specifically determined rules.

We are discussing production aid for processed tomato products.

That is why we have opposed cancelling production aids and ending milk quotas.

The problem has been raised, albeit indirectly, of reducing and abolishing production aids for tobacco.

First of all I would like to make it as clear as possible that the Commission is definitely against production aids.

Withdrawing production aid, as well as having a very serious effect on employment, would increase our external deficit.

If production aid were not paid there would no longer be any agriculture on the present scale in the EU in the future.

This proposal is also a step in the right direction insofar as it makes provision for production aid to cease in 2007.

First: one of the main objectives of production aid is to give olive farmers a fair income and guarantee market balance.

It is idealistic to believe that we will stop smokers smoking if we abolish production aids for tobacco in Europe.

In certain regions of the EU, production aid is, relatively speaking, even more important than in central Europe.

We are opposed to decoupling production aid, which is the thrust of the Commission's proposal on the reform of the banana sector.

As the Court of Auditors quite rightly states, the objective of production aid in relation to producers' income has never been defined.

It has, furthermore, exacerbated the injustice of the uneven allocation of agricultural production aid among producers, production and countries.

The line between 'product placement' and 'production aid' is very thin, and that will make doubt and controversy inevitable.

The current reform of the CAP, with the decoupling of production aid based on historical references, perpetuates this imbalance.

I am therefore pleased with Mr Cunha's proposals that we should ultimately aim for decoupling production aid.

I had proposed that it should end in 2007, for the sake of consistency, because that was the year, in the Commission proposal, for ending production aid.

We shall vote for the Funk report since it rejects the bases of the Commission proposal on a system of production aids for certain arable crops.

Even the aids that we had in the past were intended to support improvements in structure and quality - they were not intended to be permanent production aids.

If the Commission simply wishes to cut production aid crucial for the most disadvantaged regions of the European Union, it would be better if it said so clearly.

It raises the issues of new plants, the Blair House negotiations, oil plant production aid in the United States of America, the fishmeal problem, and others.