Traduction de «grande laitière » (Français → Anglais) :

M. whereas for a large number of dairy farms located in disadvantaged, outermost, insular, remote and mountainous areas the costs of production, collection and marketing of milk and dairy products outside their production area are much higher than in other areas, and whereas they cannot utilise the opportunities for growth created by the abolition of the quota to the same extent because of the natural constraints of these regions; for these reasons, such farmers could be threatened by a larger concentration of producers in the best-placed economic areas within the EU;

M. whereas for a large number of dairy farms located in disadvantaged, outermost, insular, remote and mountainous areas the costs of production, collection and marketing of milk and dairy products outside their production area are much higher than in other areas, and whereas they cannot utilise the opportunities for growth created by the abolition of the quota to the same extent because of the natural constraints of these regions; for these reasons, such farmers could be threatened by a larger concentration of producers in the best-placed economic areas within the EU;

The dairy industries in Greece are ruthlessly eliminating small dairy farmers - who are responding with demonstrations - by constantly lowering producer prices for cow's milk in order to increase their profits. One of the major companies has announced that, as of 1 May 2009, the milk cartel is to stop buying milk from 120 small producers and will limit the distribution of fresh milk in favour of long-life milk, increasing imports.

large-scale meat, dairy and food production.

For the verification of compliance with the rules on the common organisation of the markets of agricultural products (arable crops, wine, olive oil, fruit and vegetables, hops, milk and milk products, beef and veal, sheepmeat and goatmeat and honey) a well established and specific control system is already in place.

Speaking of dairy products – a sector that is quite crucial to the Azores – I cannot accept a situation in which farmers live in a state of constant fear of being fined for overproduction while European criminal organisations are falsifying tens of thousands of tons of butter with the complicity of the major European dairy product groups and while the dairy industry is receiving subsidies for powdered milk, which is basically whey, while major dairy produce companies are selling the equivalent of hundreds of millions of litres of what purport to be dairy products, but are, in fact, counterfeit products that are not made from milk.