Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing the basic price and defining the standard quality for pig carcases for the period 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996 (COM(95)0034 - C4-0071/95 - 95/0047(CNS))

The proposal was approved with the following amendments:

(Amendment 55)

Recital 1

>Original text>

Whereas, when the basic price for pig carcases is fixed, account should be taken of the objectives of the common agricultural policy; whereas the objectives of the common agricultural policy are, in particular, to guarantee a fair standard of living for the farming community and to ensure that supplies are available and that they reach consumers at reasonable prices;

>Text following EP vote>

Whereas, when the basic price for pig carcases is fixed, account should be taken of the objectives of the common agricultural policy; whereas the objectives of the common agricultural policy are, in particular, to guarantee a standard of living for the farming community which is equal to that of other sections of the population, to move constantly towards Community preference in all spheres of production and to ensure consumers security of supply, quality and reasonable prices; whereas the basic price of pig carcases should therefore be maintained at the level of the last marketing year, since pig farmers are going through an extremely serious crisis connected with currency fluctuations, whilst neither pig-farmers nor consumers are benefiting from the fall in cereal prices;

(Amendment 56)

Recital 1a (new)

>Text following EP vote>

Whereas intervention prices fell sharply (-30.5%) in the 1994/95 marketing year; whereas the pigmeat market has long been in a state of financial crisis;

(Amendment 57)

Recital 1b (new)

>Text following EP vote>

Whereas the basic price should be adjusted to the new situation;

(Amendment 58)

Recital 2a (new)

>Text following EP vote>

Whereas the fall of around 7.5% in the intervention price of cereals resulting from the CAP reform will only bring the production price of pork down by about 3.8%, and that only in the medium and long term;

(Amendment 59)

Article 1

>Original text>

For the period 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996 the basic price for pig carcases of the standard quality shall be ECU 1509.39/t.

>Text following EP vote>

For the period 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996 the basic price for pig carcases of the standard quality shall be ECU 1569.76/t.

(Amendment 60)

Article 1a (new)

>Text following EP vote>

Article 1a

The Commission shall submit by 21 December 1995 a report and relevant proposals on ways of stabilizing the mechanisms used to set the market price for pigmeat and, in particular, of restricting the size of holdings and the use of intensive farming methods.

>Text following EP vote>

The Commission shall also submit at the same time or, at the latest, in the proposal for a regulation fixing the basic price for the 1996/97 marketing year, a method of calculating this price automatically on the basis of objective criteria.

Legislative resolution embodying Parliament's opinion on the proposal for a Council Regulation fixing the basic price and defining the standard quality for pig carcases for the period 1 July 1995 to 30 June 1996 (COM(95)0034 - C4-0071/95 - 95/0047(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

- having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council, COM(95)0034 - 95/0047(CNS) ((OJ C 99, 21.4.1995, p. 28.)),

- having been consulted by the Council (C4-0071/95),

- having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure,

- having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the opinions of the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on External Economic Relations, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Development and Cooperation (A4-0100/95),

1. Approves the Commission proposal, subject to Parliament's amendments;

2. Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

3. Asks to be consulted again should the Council intend to make substantial modifications to the Commission proposal;

4. Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission.