European Parliament
A7-0163/2012
Britta Reimers,
on behalf of the ALDE Group.
(DE)
Mr President, Mr Cioloş, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to make it clear that we in the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe support the amendments. We welcome the fact that the compromise we reached on retaining the existing exceptions has not resulted in any unnecessary interruption to the payments to farmers. It is important that we take up a clear position in this transitional year.
I would also like to emphasise that I welcome the constructive way in which we have worked together and I hope that we can continue to work even more constructively in future, because in the past, we were often only able to make progress on agricultural reform in fits and starts. I believe that it is high time for us to look at the facts, so that we can work together to produce an appropriate result for farmers.

