 Mesdames et messieurs, nous allons passer au point 7 débat sur la crise alimentaire. Nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir dans cette session plusieurs autres remarques. Le commissaire à l'agriculture, tout d'abord, Monsieur Woszeczowski, ainsi que madame Marlène Mortler, députée européenne, Zilda Gomes, présidente de la Commission pour les ressources naturelles au sein du CDR et aussi Monsieur Kabelki, rapporteur pour le CDR. Je vais s'entarder, donner la parole pendant 10 minutes au commissaire à l'agriculture. Monsieur le commissaire, vous avez la parole. Merci beaucoup Monsieur le Président, mesdames et messieurs. Merci de m'avoir convié à cette session plénière du Comité des Régions. C'est un plaisir pour moi de débattre avec vous des défis que nous aurons à relever de sécurité alimentaire contenu du contexte difficile dans lequel nous évoluons. Demain, il y aura 3 ans. Ce sera le troisième anniversaire de la prise de fonction de la Commission van der Leyen. Nous avons commencé à travailler avec madame van der Leyen sur différents dossiers il y a 3 ans et le changement climatique, les événements climatiques qui touchent l'agriculture constituent l'un des dossiers les plus importants. Donc l'agriculture soit rendue plus résiliente au changement climatique et puisse mieux affronter les conséquences de ce changement climatique. Une crise incroyable causée par l'agression russe contre l'Ukraine a provoqué l'agression légale, l'agression russe contre l'Ukraine avec conséquences pour la sécurité de la sécurité mondiale. Et ce sont les défis principaux pour l'Union européenne pour nous tous et pour la communauté mondiale. Je peux dire que la sécurité mondiale dans l'Union européenne, nous avons assuré la sécurité mondiale. Et nous devons être thankful pour nos farmers, pour nos producteurs de la nourriture, que dans ces difficultés, la sécurité mondiale a été assurée. Il n'y avait pas d'interruptions de nourriture dans l'Union européenne durant cette crise. L'Union européenne est le plus grand exporteur de la monde, au niveau global. C'est très important de mentionner que dans l'année 2020, nous avons exporté le valeur de l'export de l'Union européenne à 184 billion d'euros. L'import à 122 billion d'euros, ça montre que la balance positive est à 62 billion d'euros. Et il n'y a pas de risque pour la sécurité mondiale dans l'Union européenne en long terme. Mais pour avoir la sécurité mondiale dans une longue perspective, nous avons besoin d'un soutien pour nos farmers, pour notre agriculture. Il y a quelques mots sur la situation avec l'Ukraine. Au début de la guerre, en mars et en février, le problème principal était pour la sécurité mondiale. Le challenge principal était d'ouvrir l'export de l'Union européenne. Avant la guerre, l'Ukraine a exporté environ 5, 6 millions de tonnes de grains. Et après le début de la guerre, l'export était presque complètement bloqué, que seulement 200 000 tonnes de grains étaient exportées en mars. Mais grâce à notre initiative, la solidarité de l'Ukraine, grâce à la soutien de l'export de la Pologne et de la Rumania, à la portée politique, l'export, en mars par mois, a augmenté. Et maintenant, l'export scale est comme avant la guerre. Bien sûr, la dernière fois, l'initiative Black Sea Road, l'initiative UN, l'initiative was also helpful, but the role of the European Union solidarity lanes is very important. I'd like to thank for, especially for the countries which supported to the solidarity lanes that mainly Poland, Rumania, that it was very, very important to ensure food security at the global level. But what about the future? I'd like ladies and gentlemen to say a few informations for the last, you are the first forum in which I share this information because they are new and I received results of the agricultural census in the European Union. And we can compare the situation in agriculture 2010-2020 during one decade. And what are the processes which we should analyze very, very carefully and to give answer what to do with this in the future. The first, we lost 3 million farms during one decade. The number of farms in European Union 2010 was 12 million, now we have 9 million. We lost 3 million farms during one decade. This is about the 80 farms per day. 80 farmers in the European Union each day are designed for their farming. This process is different across the member states. Not everywhere is the same, but generally maybe this is only one country which is Czech Republic where the number of farms was increased. But in the rest of the countries was decreased This is one important data. The next we lost also the agriculture land. Maybe not percentage is not big, 1%. But 1% is 1.5 million hectares. Which is also that we should to be concerned about this. Livestock farming you know there are different opinions that we have too much intensive to big meat production to many livestock farms. But animal production sustainable production is very important for sustainable development of agriculture rural areas. During one decade we lost 7% of animal production. The number of livestock units this is the category, statistic category one livestock units is one cow about 5 or 6 pigs more than 200 chicken and generally the number of livestock units was reduced 7% from 122 million to 113. And the situation is also different across the member states. But we can observe the process from one hand concentration of production we lost a lot of small farms with animal production where the number of the farms with intensive like industrial production was increased in last decade but it is not good for the productivity because the production general production is less than 10 years ago. And big challenge which is the generation and renewal may be lack of generational renewal the average age of the European farmers 10 years ago was 55 and half year and now is 57 and one third of European farmers from this 9 million European farmers 3 millions they are in age 65 plus they are farmers without the perspective without the successors majority of them and we need to concentrate our effort to improve generational renewal we have of course the instrument in the common agriculture policy which is support from the first pillar and the second pillar to support young farmers but this is not enough we need in the agriculture policy in the future we need to strengthen our instrument to make the farmers work more economically safety because during the permanent crisis all time the crisis the risk to be a farmer is too high this is one of the reason that young people don't like to be the farmer to continue the generational tradition in farming this is one issue the second is condition on life in rural areas and this is very important also for our cooperation with committee of region because we have we mentioned also in our long term vision for rural areas but we need to respect fully this principle from the article 174 of the treaty that the rural areas also post industrial areas and out most regions should be treated with the preference and we need to pay more attention for this policy and to improve condition of life in rural areas thank you very much Mr President Thank you commissioner for your insights now it's my pleasure to give the floor to the member of the european parliament member of the agri-committee Marlène Mortler you have the floor for 10 minutes c'est agréable resident president cordero thank you very much commissioner wajtukowski Ms Gomez Mr Kalbetsky I am delighted that you extended this kind invitation to me to speak to you today at the committee of the region plenary together with your rapporteur Kalbetsky I had an excellent exchange in november and I was also very pleased that Mr Kalbetsky was able to pay us a visit yesterday in the agricultural committee I think speaking with each other as opposed to over each other is a good basis for making good decisions and solutions that can be implemented our citizens want to and should be able to have a better understanding of Europe and Mr Kalbetsky and I discovered that we have the same objective and that is to support our farmers and I've understood the commissioner has the same objective too commissioner wajtukowski Mr Kalbetsky and I believe that we shouldn't just wait to act until a crisis crops up Europe needs to be better prepared for different crises European food production must become a strategic cornerstone for the European Union and European and global supply chains should be made more robust and more crisis resilient global food security is not something that we can take for granted the Covid crisis and the huge impact that the brutal war in the Ukraine has had have made a lot of people poorer on top of that we've seen increasing food prices increasing energy prices as well this means that survival is becoming more difficult for people throughout the world the number of people who are under nourrished or mal nourrished in the world is increasing steadily the availability and affordability of nutritious and safe food is massively compromised today the percentage of the global population that cannot afford healthy food is at 30% now on top of that we also have to factor in the fact that the world population is increasing at the beginning of the 1950s the global population was around 2.5 billion we've now passed 8 billion people in the world and so the demand for food and for biomass continues to increase at the same time and water available is becoming even more scarce so the question we need to put ourselves today and in the future is that we have more people and less available space so how are we going to provide enough food in a sustainable way sustainable food security is a huge challenge but in principle it is possible to achieve this when we look at the climate the environment issues we face of course agriculture and food is part of the problem but on the other hand it's also part of the solution and the green deals objectives can be best achieved in the agricultural sector whether we're talking about food production or CO2 reductions blanket reduction targets when it comes to plant protection and generalised bans I don't think that's the right approach to take we need to be able to reduce the use of these products through innovation plant protection means consumer protection take a look at what happened in Sri Lanka we can learn from that and learn just how important and valuable the work of our farmers is in April of 2021 the Sri Lankan government decided to ban artificial fertiliser and plant protection products a year on we can see that this experiment was a failure first off because of the decreased harvests the farmers went bankrupt the economy was soon in ruins and then the government followed suit this example shows us that food security contributes to a stable society so having enough food means that we'll have fewer conflicts I think improving yields is central to climate and environmental protection these aren't contradictions in terms we need more diversity when it comes to our fields and when it comes to what we eat this is something that would be good for the environment and for plant protection as well as for a balanced diet Commissioner, I think it's high time that we have a comprehensive European protein strategy the goals of the new EU fertilizer strategy should be able to be implemented in the mid and long term as well and be effective organic and mineral fertilisers as well as new food sources are essential for healthy harvests without new technologies sustainable agriculture and nutritious food production is not going to be possible so I'm calling for the development of new breeding techniques digital technologies agroforest systems vertical farming precision agriculture and artificial intelligence these all form part of a good toolbox instead of completely condemning new breeding technologies I think we're better off having a discussion about the goals we're working towards and which ones promote sustainability best logistics transport storage these will also be crucial to a well functioning supply chain food waste on the one hand and on the other hand food speculation need to be highlighted as well this is something that I think is really important Europe also needs to be more aware of the international dimension of its agricultural policy the green deal could not lead to more food imports if we take a look at what's happened in China for example like rarely before China has started to stock up India for its part has stopped some exports so ladies and gentlemen we do not want to kill our farmers but the Indian ambassador told me on a visit to Strasbourg and indeed we in Europe need our farmers we need them more than ever they need to be recognised and they need a fair framework conditions throughout the world so that's who we're fighting for that's who I'm fighting for because these are the people who provide us on a daily basis with high quality raw materials for a diverse nutrition their valuable work cannot be questioned because of blanket bans and one sided campaigns so let's promote this wonderful asset that we have, thank you very much thank you so much for your intervention now it is my pleasure to give the floor to Isilda Gomes president de commission NAC she's the head of the NAC committee here in the committee of the regions you have five minutes thank you very much chair and I will take advantage of those five minutes chair guests, colleagues food security is again at the top of our political agenda today the European Union is self sufficient as regards food but we are facing an increase in prices of food stuffs and energy products and that is contributing to a spiraling inflation so just to give you some figures I think it's always better with figures in France food prices are up 15.4% bread and cereals have increased 16.6% in the EU we're at the highest level since 1997 January 1997 the highest bread prices were in Hungary up 66% in August 2022 then Lithuania 33% Estonia and Slovakia both are at 32% these figures hide devastating realities across the EU poverty is increasing poor families with low incomes are those who suffer most they have to spend more of their budget on basic food stuffs such as bread if we need to act urgently to make sure we help those citizens in need using all tools at our disposal so what are those tools that we have first of all market regulation farmers and consumers in the EU need stability they need price stability if we can't control prices we'll only manage to do that if the EU develops sound instruments to regulate the market so for example that's been done in other areas but we know that without that we have speculation and we need to reduce the distance between production and consumers that reduces the vulnerabilities and we're not doing so harms natural resources the EU and the CAP need to strengthen local food systems as insisted upon by the committee and that means developing local sustainable food systems doing that is the best way to ensure good quality food stuffs for our citizens and good worthy income for our farmers the use of biofuels has to be interrupted we need to reduce our dependence on certain inputs such as pesticides and fertilizers that will help us increase the resilience of our food production system we need to denounce the instrumentalization of war in Ukraine which represents a new political offence as well against our strategy as a whole we've seen disinformation false news about the strategy focusing on the green packed and food sectors promoting resilience in those sectors in the EU we need to take a long term view to make sure that our food stuffs are as sustainable as possible that we support our economy and our autonomy and resilience at EU level and at regional levels and this means we have to develop alternative farming which provides incentives for biodiverse production systems that are resilient, sustainable and socially fair we have an important role to play in the transition in fact i think we're fundamental perhaps we can make sure that we're no longer losing eight farmers per day as we've heard from the commissioner thank you very much thank you very much for taking the floor von and we will have as you all know we have an opinion to be presented and voted during this session that asks everything to do what we've been talking about so it is my pleasure to give the floor to the rapporteur of that opinion our member you have the floor for five minutes for presenting the opinion and then we'll move on to the debate and luckily we will have commissioner and MEP to be with us during the debate rapporteur you have the floor Mr President Mr Deputy of EU Parliament Mr Commissar President not commission all colleagues thank you for giving me voice and especially thank you for entrusting me preparation of the opinion about the food security although i'm not vaccinated today but to be better understanding let me speak in Polish Panie Panowie Chaube Ladies and gentlemen let me thank everyone who helped me draft this opinion let me thank the chairman of the Nutt Commission all the members of the commission my EPL members or EPP members let me thank the secretariat and the experts especially small and medium sized farmers let me thank Madame Murtler who's a farmer from Bavaria I'm a farmer too so I think it helped us to work together let me thank the cabinet members of the commissioner we consulted our opinion wisdom as well it's a an opinion about something really important we just heard about it it's about food security well it was in spring this year when the commission published a communication on it that was the commission's response to the war in Ukraine but as practically all people before me said there were reasons to talk about food security even before many of them it wasn't just the war that provoked our discussion when we look at the past 15 years of food prices on markets we see that it's not the first crisis it's the third one there's something wrong with the European agricultural policy and please note that our opinion is a voice that is again calling for peace for Ukraine we have to do our best to stabilize the situation in Europe by giving an une equivocal response to Putin's regime to what he's doing bear in mind that we are actually having the 19th anniversary of this big famine in Ukraine Soviet Russia used they didn't use weapons then they just imposed hunger on Ukraine and killed 5 million people so we have to do anything to keep Europe safe I will not discuss details it has 96 paragraphs all of them are important thank you to all political groups all of you were constructive let me thank Christophe Klerchil, Roberto Giambetti and all others everyone who joined that discussion and I think thanks to them this is a great opinion we'll continue this discussion let me invite you to Toruń on the second and third of June next year we will organize a meeting of the Nat Commission but there will also be a conference on food security let's hope that the farmers because they are the producers here they guarantee our food I hope their situation will improve I hope there will no longer be price problems value chain from farm to fork is safe I hope we will make production cost stable you know my brother is a farmer and I can see suddenly fertilizers got 3 times more expensive fortunately prices have fallen by now but you need security here farmers plan their production yes in advance they cannot react at hawk if prices fluctuate so thank you very much now ladies and gentlemen your colleagues let's open the floor for the debate first I would like to give the floor to our colleague Fernando Lopez Mirage for 2 minutes thank you very much chair commissioner members of the committee we are very aware of how important it is to guarantee food security for the first time in history we haven't gone hungry during a pandemic but that shouldn't be taken as a given that it will always be like that we have the pandemic, we have the war in Ukraine which are both showing us that we have to make decisions that ensure greater self sufficiency and making sure that we are self sufficient across the entirety of the food chain prices have continued to increase over the last year because of the price of energy because of price of fertilizers and because of inputs in general and that of course has an impact on everyone including those who are most vulnerable we need a sustainable and competitive farm system we need to renew our production system that is the prime that is at the core of the cap that's only possible with water of course we need to make sure that the food system is produced in a fair way and farmers need us to listen this is a key field to ensure sustainability within the EU the green pact is absolutely essential to ensure this food security at the same time we also need to look at what's happening in terms of lesser food production we need to work hard though it's not easy to achieve all of our objectives and make the changes that we need we trust that the EU will make use of all its tools at its disposable make sure things are flexible enough that we can help farmers producers and consumers the new cap won't be enough to do that we need to continue to work on this especially given the current contexte we need to lean on our experience and where possible use that experience and learn from it thank you very much now the floor goes to our colleague you have the floor for 2 minutes thank you president 90 years after holodomor the Kremlin is again using food as a weapon the Russian aggression leads to inclinations for energy and fertilizers which is treating our food production and next year could be even more challenging in terms of availability of fertilizers at regional and local level we are doing our best at home to grow more food and to guarantee our food security by strengthening local food systems this is a good way a good way to provide for quality food for our citizens and decent income for our farmers but at the European level we should be very cautious not to make law proposals that could cut European food production and increase farmers costs maintaining quality food production in Europe is not only in farmers interest but also in consumers interest this more important now than ever dear commissioner what would be the consequences of the green deal and farm to fork strategy especially from a farming perspective and agri food chain perspective after all this legislation will be implemented at local and regional level and has an impact on our territories we need a comprehensive territorial impact assessment how much we will produce after these policy measures have been put in place the European committee of the regions could provide available support in this exercise because we have our territorial impact assessment thank you very much thank you the floor is yours for four minutes thank you president thank you chairman we need to declare war on war I believe that everything which is happening on the European market is not born out of a shortage of food but of speculation and we see it every day the markets are not controlled and that's why there's this price hike and this leads to fairly scary effects I was baffled by the figures mentioned by the commissioner since 2010 to 2020 3 million fewer companies and if we want to think about the future we need to dwell on that figure and commissioner those were the companies which were probably on the margins of the implementation of our CAP and I really think we need to give some thought to the future implementation and it would be interesting to see whether these 3 million companies are micro companies our committee a couple of months ago adopted an opinion on state aid to agricultural holdings and companies and in that opinion we state that small and medium sized enterprises as defined by European policies in agriculture are actually large companies some thought needs to be given to that an agricultural SME is not the same as an SME in other industries a manufacturing SME an industry SME would be a large agricultural company and I think we need to give some thought to that and maybe we need to have a new category of companies micro companies those are probably the ones that are making up the 3 million that have closed over the past 10 years and when it comes to the biodiversity strategy the green deal, the farm to fork strategy it's the micro enterprises that implement all of this I mean of course large agricultural companies are also involved but most of it is implemented by micro enterprises and we need to speak plainly and there are people who are trying to put a break on the policies that the commission is developing which we supported and others have supported and we need to make sure that people can't put a break on this and the local and regional authorities are successful in implementing all of this and therefore we need to take account of their needs the needs of our municipalities in our regions and when it comes to public procurement if in a school or in a hospital there's a canteen that we should apply the same to major infrastructure works if the legislative constraints are there and if all of that is so complex then it doesn't work and we need to make sure that public procurement can act more swiftly that we can have short circuits local systems so that the market is brought closer to the consumer Nicolas Caputo, you have the floor for three minutes Grazie Thank you President, Commissioner According to a recent report because of the high prices an Italian is now spending less on the quantity and the quality of food and that's the same EU and there's a food social gap now and young persons in particular have reduced their spending more than older people and poorer segments of society have reduced their shopping more than the affluent segments and this is affecting the whole agri food business in particular in rural areas and many companies are going to the wall and are running and operating at a loss and we can't waste any time we need to improve the purchasing power of our European citizens and we need to make sure that we can maintain production so that these agricultural holdings can be saved we also have to contend with climate change and that has an impact on the profitability of agricultural holdings and there is not really any prevention to ensuring for risk and there is therefore no income stabilisation tool and we think that insurance policies for farmers is something that needs to be looked at these companies are affected by the high prices for raw materials and currently these instruments play a marginal role and from a strategic point of view that is a mistake of course we need to take account of member state specificities but if there is any issue of implementation we need to look at it because it takes away resources from the first and second pillar we need to make sure that short production chains and that we produce health and seasonal food and we need a new culture of food we need to make sure that under public procurement we give precedence to short circuit foods for supplying canteens in schools and hospitals and we need to make sure that the necessary incentives are in place if there is a food crisis then we need to act immediately so that we can put in place measures that can start straight away in March there was a crisis reserve there was a 500 million euro amount made available and member states were also allowed to depart from certain investment obligations undertaken under 2020 but if there is a food shortage we need to move away from our dependence on fossil fuels, pesticides and fertilisers and we need to provide specific measures for certain markets and we need to make sure that we can have a liquidity injection also by having direct advances paid out member marco marcilio you have the floor for two and a half minutes thank you and welcome commissioner also on behalf of the ECR group now in spite of the destabilisation of the agricultural markets and an increase in prices because of the Russian aggression in Ukraine the EU's food security is not at risk and you pointed this out yourself and this is because we are self sufficient when it comes to the main food products even though vulnerable families have reduced their spending on food it's important to implement a long term initiative so that we can guarantee food security in the EU we need to have a transition towards more sustainable system and this is a priority so that we can have food sovereignty and we need to make sure that we put in place projects to this end in particular at local and regional level we need to also promote research so that we can make sure that food production is also resilient to climate change and we need to rethink organic farming and we need to move away from the use of chemical substances which have a negative impact on the environment and of course we have an important role to play we need to make sure that we can react to these major changes it's the local and regional authorities that will have to become active for mostly now labelling on the front of the package is something that we are critical of we don't think that the nutrient score system gives reliable and right information to consumers it penalises products from the Mediterranean diet which are healthy and balanced products and we hope that this is not implemented at European level then I would also like to touch upon synthetic foods that's very topical and we do need to speak to this synthetic products do not contribute to our citizens health they are environmentally friendly they use more water and resources and synthetic foods also would limit the choice of citizens and nutritional choices and it would promote the interests of a number of producers, large producers over others and this would cause a rift in the extraordinary link that exists between food culture and tradition now the agricultural world the scientific world too is deploying a lot of efforts in particular so that farming can continue in rural areas and this to fight off the advent of synthetic foods You have the floor for two minutes Panie commissar Panie przewodniczące Thank you very much for giving me the floor I don't want to refer to everything that has already been agreed it's bad it can be even worse let's hope it won't get much much worse During the energy crisis we have also the food crisis unfolding and we see a spectre of lack of food in the world looming large I hope it won't affect Europe so much I just wanted to draw attention to the following aspects of the financing of the European agricultural policy will cost us 370 billion euros à présent on spending about 4% of the EU GDP Do you think commissar this is enough and does the commissar take into account extending the budget for the CAP In the European Union we've got about 2 million hectares of soil which has been excluded from agriculture production now you're planning of introducing agriculture production so the area of land would increase and this would contribute to increasing food production another issue that I wanted to raise now people are investing in agriculture I have a question do you want to trigger the crisis reserve of the European Union so that the European Union would be able to ensure long time security for its citizens and I think that the EU will need to be revised both at the EU level and at the national level do you have any ideas here any potential for change and finally we do everything to have more food but at the same time we're wasting food the EU has committed to limit food waste by half by 2023 Will you introduce any programs? Thank you Power for one minute, for two minutes Thank you Mr President and thank you Mr for this comprehensive opinion on what is a very important and pressing topic Fortunately as already highlighted the EU is not currently at risk of food shortages however this does not mean that we are insulated against the effects of food price inflation or a response to this must not be to dismantle environmental protections in fact the disruption in supply chains seen following the invasion of Ukraine and the pandemic as well as the frequency of climate change related flooding and droughts has shown the necessity for greater focus on resilient climate adapted mitigating farming solutions I'm glad to read in this opinion the focus on promoting organic farming and sustainably reducing the reliance upon fertilisers in relation to the latter we know reliance upon it leaves us vulnerable to supply chain and price disruption and also has impacts on climate through its production and biodiversity through its use what we need to focus on now is ensuring that we help farmers transition to climate mitigating and adaptive solutions and relocalisation of production in a way that is sustainable and well mapped out farmers must also be able to secure fair payment for their produce as Ms Gomez has highlighted and particular supports must be aimed at providing stable incomes to small farmers and hopefully offsetting the loss of farmers that we have seen as highlighted by the commissioner finally I'm glad that this opinion acknowledges the need to support vulnerable people with the use of increased food prices with the current cost of living crisis it is important that we protect our citizens from food poverty however I think in a broader sense and going well beyond the scope of this opinion we need to be working to create societies where in none of our citizens are ever left vulnerable to food poverty or poverty indeed of any kind thank you thank you member Gonzalez Gonzalez one minute bonjour thank you very much commissioner I want to say thank you so much for being here with us today and for taking part in this discussion as we talk about these challenges we're facing like all previous speakers I mean I think we all agree we clearly have to support the livestock farming and farming sectors we know that they are facing real dangers and we need to extend farming to more land use and also to more numbers we need new farmers, younger farmers the commission needs to work on solutions that will provide help to producers we need to work on various fronts and we need to do so urgently the countries affected are affected by Ukraine and the effects of climate change and of course climate change has a clear effect on production thank you very much thank you so much for your intervention now I'll give the floor to member Fernandez Viana you have the floor for one minute thank you very much commissioner, colleagues talking about food crisis food security is really interesting especially from the local point of view and the support that we can provide also action taken by member states I just want to introduce something into the debate which is food waste sustainability means that we have to use our food and local authorities need to have an opportunity because they're close to consumers so they can focus on lessening food waste as well as guaranteeing food security of all people in Cantabria we've had a campaign over three years looking at raising awareness against food waste and about the circular economy we focused a lot on the importance of consumption and local consumption of regional products as well as a need to buy seasonal products and also focusing on how to reduce the number of food that ends up in the trash and in turn this also helps support the circular economy thank you thank you thank you commissioner for attending our meeting and thank you also to my friend Pioto Kulbeski for taking on board all of the amendments that we've suggested you took one on board completely and the other three you took on board the spirit and objective in relation to terrace cultivation perennial crops livestock and last but not least also the PDOs, PGI's and GI's we need to make sure that we have sufficient resources for everyone and sufficient food but we also need to protect quality now the commissioner said that 80 companies a day are disappearing and that's a worrying figure about 4% of the active population in the EU is involved in farming but that 4% manages about 70% of the territory managers and does upkeep on 70% of the territory and if we lose that we lose a part of our territory too thank you Thank you Thank you very much I want to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to take the floor speaking on behalf of Andalusia and obviously this is something qu'on est aware about we know that we need our farmers to guarantee food security in Europe but we also know what the situation is we're facing a crisis and energy prices are rising uncontrollably and all of that makes it more difficult to ensure food security not just in terms of production but also in terms of profitability for the producers the crisis situation that we're facing the producers to deal with that do help the sector but they're not enough I'm not just thinking about EU we need to think beyond EU as well we need to look at the possible extension of the conflict over time and we need to deal with this on a broader basis therefore I think it's essential that we work together to support farmers and to ensure food security in the future thank you Bruno Ranić you have the floor for one minute Dear colleagues when we're talking about the food crisis today it shouldn't only be linked to the war in Ukraine that produces a lot of food but we should look at it as a crisis of increasing energy prices and fertilizer prices in cases of food traders who artificially increase prices in the EU we have to make sure that we have stronger control and sanctions for such traders with the food price increases not only there is less demand but people buy food of lesser quality which can have an adverse effect on health of people which cause problems in the health system this consequently can lead to higher costs in the EU thank you Igor Androvic, one minute Thank you Thank you the war in Ukraine and the crisis that's affecting all of us should not result in the lack of agricultural products and in the lack of food but what we do see is that we have price increases local producers are not in a good position but all the interventions that come from the EU should be commended because they are used to help our producers to stay producing however we have to mention the climate change that we're witnessing over the last couple of years this is something that affects our producer through droughts through storms something that additionally causes troubles for food production in the Virovitica county we use farms from the EU to reduce risks for our farmers in order to have public irrigation systems and in order to have other types of protection for our farms that gives us security and competitiveness in food production and I hope that the EU will continue to put money into such project Yoshko Klisovich, one minute it must be clear that the right way forward is pursuing the objectives of the farm to fork and biodiversity strategy within the European Green Deal full involvement of local suppliers in this endeavor is crucial for the success as well as for setting up emergency stocks and boosting more diverse local food production which would in turn offer more resilience to external shocks equally important in this context is reducing the environmental and climate footprint on the EU food system ensuring food security in the face of climate change and biodiversity law Nicolas Dobrov Slavich, one minute Thank you Mr President let me thank Commissioner Wojachowski on the way how he approached this issue let me thank MEP Mortner Pauli Kulbetski for a wonderful opinion on this issue the agricultural policy is the basic policy of the EU and we see that food is used as a means to wage war by Russia in their brutal aggression on Ukraine and it shows how right we were when we issued our opinion to the Committee of the Regions about the multi-annual financial framework and we insisted to defend the CAP and we were against cutting funds to the CAP just like the European Commission is trying to find solutions to food security we should continue doing so the Committee of the Regions will be your allies in that respect one minute Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen I come from the Ljubljana in the Netherlands we would ask your attention for circular production a protein transition we want plant-based proteins and that allows us to use fewer pesticides and we can make sure that the world has healthy and sustainable food Jarozlau Stavjarski one minute I come from the Ljubljana region which is directly neighbouring Ukraine and just as Ukraine we have very fertile soils and we produce healthy food just as they do in Ukraine the question is what can we do to increase our food production and ensure food security to the citizens of Europe and in a sense the citizens of the world well in my opinion what we need to do is to increase the level of activity of local regional governments first of all what we should do is to change the common agricultural policy of the European Union we should adjust it to the global challenges we should disperse more funds for the CAP and the common agricultural policy of the EU should be flexible to allow regions to have more influence of where the funds are directed it is the region that can give a resounding effect to the CAP and ensure more resilience thank you one minute commissioner ladies and gentlemen this crisis is putting in peril the food security in the EU we need to do our utmost to have stability in Ukraine and we must deploy all efforts to make sure that the black sea agreement can be maintained and we need transport corridors we really need to do our best to make sure that Ukraine can continue exporting its agricultural produce transports towards Hungary and across Hungary have increased and we've made significant investments to beef up capacity at border control posts at the same time we also need to bear in mind sustainability we need to continue to be a net exporter in the EU and of course the significant increase in energy prices and it will be expected as greatly and something there needs to be done soon TOBIAS GOTTART one minute commissioner president I'd like to thank mrs. Motler for what she said she said that Europe's farming is a treasure an asset that we need to set great store-by Et je pense que tous les groupes politiques ont fait le point que les farmacres sont nos partenaires, pas nos oponents. Et si je regarde au marché global, et même si je suis en faveur du marché global, quand il s'agit de la nourriture, je pense que c'est le meilleur de regarder notre marché. Merci beaucoup. Nous avons été dit de l'incrise dans les prix de fertiliser, le fait qu'il n'y a pas de nourriture, qu'il y a une crise de nourriture, et qu'il y a des problèmes avec la chaine de nourriture. Et je pense que les activités de développement dans les régions de montagne peuvent être une solution. Vous n'avez pas besoin d'une machinerie, ou de fertiliser, et vous pouvez produire une nourriture haute. Et mon proposement et la question sont les suivants. Ne pouvons-nous pas faire de l'eau avec de l'acier bleu et réduire la bureaucratie. C'est difficile d'obtenir des fonds pour les farmacres dans ces zones, et ils nous disent que c'est presque impossible d'avoir accès aux fonds, et que seulement 24% des fonds ont été faits par les farmacres. Non. Maintenant, cela conclure le débat sur la flore. Merci beaucoup pour... Oui. Eva, vous êtes sur la flore pour une minute. Merci beaucoup. Merci beaucoup, effectivement. Je suis très heureuse que nous parlons de cela. Je voulais juste vous donner attention à une simple chose, et j'ai invité le fait que c'était mentionné par le commissaire et Mr Tsobecki. Le site du pays n'est pas seulement de l'agriculture. Vous avez mentionné l'infrastructure dans l'EU où 70% de la territoire est de l'agriculture. En Pologne, c'est plus de 90%. Un grand nombre de nos populations vivent dans des zones rurales. Et en fait, les zones rurales, les plus grandes zones rurales, sont dépopulées. Mais nous avons besoin de gens qui vivent dans le site du pays pour pouvoir travailler sur le terrain. Nous sommes partenaires et nous avons besoin de l'acquisition de l'agriculture. Nous avons besoin de l'acquisition de l'agriculture. Nous avons besoin de l'acquisition de l'agriculture. Merci beaucoup. Je n'ai pas d'autres demandes sur la flore. Ce sera la fin de notre débat. Merci beaucoup pour cette discussion importante, une débat importante. C'est une très importante matière pour l'Europe, pour les régions, c'est-à-dire pour ma région, les Azores, la région de l'agriculture. Maintenant, je vais donner la flore à la commission de réaction dans deux minutes. Est-ce que c'est suffisant pour vous? Plus que le temps, c'est-à-dire. Je vois que vous avez l'air. Vous avez la flore pour deux semaines. Si vous permettez au moins 5 minutes, c'est ce que je voudrais. 5 minutes, parce que c'est vraiment quelque chose qui fait beaucoup de passion. C'est très bref. Ukraine, nous avons fait beaucoup pour soutenir l'export de l'Ukraine, c'est-à-dire pour les pays du Nord-Afrique, au Moyen-Orient, parce que c'est important de la perspective de l'agriculture. Et ça doit être gardé. Mais merci beaucoup à tous les speakers qui ont dit que la Russie est en fait un manque de nourriture, ou un manque de nourriture. C'est une activité consistante. La Russie est déçue, est détruite, le potentiel de nourriture, le potentiel de nourriture de l'Ukraine, dans une manière très consistante. Et je pense que nous devons être préparés pour le moins. Parce que maintenant, le problème est de comment d'exporter un grain de l'Ukraine, demain, le problème peut être comment d'exporter la nourriture dans l'Ukraine. Ces parallèles historiques du Chlodomor ne sont pas vraiment infondés. Nous devons être préparés pour le moins. Donc, nous devons prendre de la production de pied dans l'Union européenne. Je vous remercie. Il y a eu des questions sur l'agriculture, les liens entre elles. Nous avons fait nos conclusions sur la réalité de changement. Nos rêves avec respect à l'agriculture sont des idées politiques. Les targets politiques ne sont pas obligatifs pour les farmers. Certains de ces targets pourraient être risqués avec respect à la production de pieds. Nous avons décidé de les attendre. Par exemple, d'exclamer certaines zones de production ou de l'agriculture de la rotation de pieds. La rotation de pieds est nécessaire. Mais quand nous sommes en train d'agriculture, nous avons décidé de donner à nos farmers une carte de l'Ukraine pour qu'ils puissent actuer l'agriculture. C'est quelque chose que nous avons fait. Mais nous ne sommes pas en train de donner de la diversification de production de l'agriculture. M. Bauer a dit de la production de l'agriculture. Si nous développons la production de l'agriculture, ce ne sera pas un problème pour la sécurité de pieds. Parce que dans beaucoup de farms, surtout les plus petits farms, ils ont un choix très simple. Il y a d'autres, ils sont des biopharmes ou ils ne produisent pas parce que ces petits farms dans ces conditions difficiles de l'Ukraine ne peuvent pas compter en tant qu'agriculture conventionnelle. Mais ils peuvent être très bons compétiteurs avec respect à la production de l'agriculture. Donc, nous devons soutenir la production de l'agriculture, la production de l'agriculture. C'est quelque chose qu'il y a d'un à l'autre. M. Bauer, si je peux, il y a une autre chose que je voulais referter. Le financement de l'agriculture non 0,4% de la GDP est utilisé pour la CAP. Merci beaucoup pour votre soutien. Merci beaucoup pour le carenement pour l'agriculture commune que c'est financé suffisamment. Merci beaucoup pour vos conseils. Maintenant, la floor va au MEP Marlène Mortler pour deux minutes. Merci, M. le Président. Merci beaucoup, M. le Président. Laissez-moi disputer l'agriculture à la production de l'agriculture en conventionnelle et en organique. Mais c'est important pour les plantes avec la nourriture pour être avancées. Nous, les gens, avec la nourriture suffisante, la même chose pour les plantes et nous avons besoin de protéger les plantes quand les plantes sont désises, quand des thresholds sont axés et c'est important pour nous de protéger les plantes pour avoir de bonnes crops. Nous prenons des médecins et vous pouvez comparer les plantes. Cette année nous célébrons le 60e anniversaire de la CAP et quand tout cela a commencé nous avons dit que il n'y a pas de guerre, il n'y a pas de hunger. Maintenant, dans le meantime, nos plantes sont fulles, nous n'avons plus vu la connexion entre tout et tout cela est produite. Et c'est important de se battre en main. Et c'est important de vous demander d'où je le buys, d'où je le buys, d'où je me fiche. Et cela commence à la maison, et si vous ne pouvez pas le manager à la maison, vous ne pouvez pas le manager à la large scale. Nous ne sommes pas diamétriquement opposés. Nous travaillons sur cela. Et dans les plantes, il y a des choses qui sont confinées dans le passé. Mais nous devons donner l'advice à ces plantes et qu'ils veulent faire le meilleur. Nous avons la connaissance dans l'EU. Mais j'ai l'impression d'avoir beaucoup d'alliance sur notre côté. Je vous donne deux minutes pour la réaction. Merci pour participer dans ce débat. Il m'a montré plus de choses que nous n'avons d'une opinion suffisante. J'ai l'impression que une ferme était une ferme. Oui, c'est une ferme qui donne un travail pour toute la famille. Sans une famille, vous n'auriez pas de protection environnementale. Mesdames et messieurs, des paroles de farmacres qui ont protégé l'environnement. Ils se sont toujours tentés de couper l'influence des humains dans les locales et les autorités régionales ont toujours essayé d'organiser les tables pour protéger les farmacres et les chaussures. Et en même temps, le sens de la vie et de la culture, de l'agriculture, est marié par ce mot. Alors, let's bear in mind that when we think about small farms that are disappearing now in Europe, if we forget about them, we'll lose after some time, not just food security, but we'll even forget what Europe should be about. Let's really try to do our best to avoid that. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Commissioner, for your presence here with us during this day. Thank you MEP for Mortler for being here with us. I wish you a good afternoon, a good rest of the day, and thank you for being with us. Now, ladies and gentlemen, let's proceed.