Means of compensating for the decrease in agricultural workers' real incomes
15.2.2010
WRITTEN QUESTION E-0973/10
by Rareş-Lucian Niculescu (PPE)
to the Commission
The EU statistics office estimates that agricultural workers’ income fell in 22 Member States in 2009, by an average of 12.2 % across the Community. The sharpest falls are expected in Hungary (-35.6 %), Italy (–25.3 %), Luxembourg (–25.1 %), the Czech Republic (–24.1 %), Ireland (–22.3 %), Germany (–21 %), Austria (–20.4 %) and France (–19.8 %). In Romania, this indicator fell by 15.1 % over the previous year, which was the 11th steepest drop among the EU Member States.
Since one of the objectives of the common agricultural policy is to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural population, especially by raising the personal incomes of agricultural workers, can the Commission specify whether it intends to implement any new measures — outside those already under way — to compensate for the decrease in real agricultural incomes?
OJ C 138 E, 07/05/2011