Translation of "dépenses de soutien du marché " (French → English) :

U. whereas the share of CAP expenditure in the EU budget has steadily decreased from nearly 75% in 1985 to a projected 39.3% in 2013; whereas this represents less than 0.45% of the EU's GDP; whereas the decline in budgetary expenditure on market measures is even more significant – from 74% of all CAP expenditure in 1992 to less than 10% at present; whereas CAP expenditure has constantly moved away from market support and export subsidies to decoupled payments and rural development,

Overall needs for CAP market support expenditure are estimated at €40,1 billion.

In turn, this will entail further cuts in producers’ income and further restrictions on farming. What is particularly worrying is the fact that, alongside the reduction in support expenditure for agricultural product markets, there is also an increase in and systemisation of expenditure under the second pillar of the CAP intended to wipe out small and medium-sized farmers.

In Category 1 on agriculture and market expenditure, we are already up to the limit of the margin. In Category 4 on external action – I shall return to this point – the Category is literally at bursting point. In Category 5, we do not know what the administrative reform of the Commission will cost, but it is with great concern that we see the problem of pensions taking shape before suitable expenditure has been envisaged; and in Category 7, intended for pre-accession preparations, the movement developing in favour of faster and wider enlargement, if I may say, is not supported by suitable appropriations.

Main components of the heading 1 are the expenditure on market and direct compensatory aid but it would cover also:

Furthermore, any additional market expenditure arising, for example, from increases in the number of suckler cows, beyond those calculated in our first proposal of January last, will also have to be found through savings within the fixed envelope.