Mr. Janusz Wojciechowski:

The situation of the family farm is one of the key points for debate on the future of agriculture in the European Union. I fully agree with the witness. However, we now have a situation were 20%, that is, the largest farms, received 80% of European subsidies for agriculture, and the other 80% received only 20% of those subsidies. This is the political choice we face in deciding the future CAP. We show a picture of what the situation is. It should be very seriously considered why four million farms have been lost in such a short period of time. Why have we lost 20 million ha that were previously declared farmland? This is a very big process. It should be considered.

For our next audit plan, I propose to investigate the reduction in land used for farming. This is a big problem. There was debate about this issue in the European Parliament too; it is a very important problem. The situation faced by family farms is a key issue for the future. We have to decide what the policy will be for this type of agriculture.