European Parliament
Hélène Goudin and Nils Lundgren (IND/DEM ),
in writing.
(SV)
We are voting against this report, but we are abstaining from voting on the Commission’s proposal in this area.
The explanatory statement in this report contains a number of views such as criticism of the common agricultural policy being abandoned or renationalised – something which the June List would find desirable – and of it contravening the European Parliament’s right of participation, a view that the June List does not share.
In addition, the explanatory statement maintains that the ‘health check’, or the ‘mid-term review’ as we prefer to call it, of the long-term budget planned for 2008/2009 should only form the basis of proposals for the financing period
after
2013. The June List absolutely does not share this view. We believe that the mid-term review must lead to cuts in the agriculture/rural development budget as early as in the budget period currently at issue, 2007-2013.

