This is then further designed to contain helping aids for production such as:

Consequently, aid should not be restricted solely to aid for production.

However, the problem is aid for production, not aid for destruction.

In particular, aid for production just encourages producers to use every intensive production method available. This does not protect jobs, quality, the environment or safety.

Until recently, the European Union's system of aid for production and consumption has favoured large producers, although small farmers produce 60 % of the total.

It calls for $270 million in government aid for production, and more cooperation in production and among film schools and state-owned television stations.

The COM in olive oil is based on aid for production. In other words, it encourages higher productivity as a means of increasing farmers' incomes.

A higher risk was noted for measures not subject to the Integrated Administrative and Control System. They include amongst others aid for production, rural development and export refunds.

At the time of the vote in the Committee on Agriculture, we were pleased to see that our position defending aid for production was adopted in the compromise amendments of the report.

It is true that in the debate about the reform of the common agricultural policy, which is beginning to be discussed, the conviction is emerging from many parts that in time aid for production will gradually be cut down.

Then you will actually be bringing about the extensification of the sector because, otherwise, by maintaining aid for production, you are implementing a contradictory policy: on the one hand you are encouraging production and on the other, you are paying for it.

As far as restructuring is concerned, we are proposing additional financing, by transferring a proportion of the funds currently used for direct aid for production to a restructuring envelope, which would bolster the existing rural development funds of producing regions, thus helping them to support diversification.

Secondly, the report rejects all the amendments relating to the withdrawal of production aid, thereby defending the principle of Community aid for production, jobs and associated activities. It promotes improved quality, greater coherence between supply and demand and, within that framework, proposes to reinforce professional organization and increase the payments for some varieties.