Our farm leaders must now focus on the threat to the entire framework within which farmers will produce and sell their products over the next ten to 20 years. They must row in behind us and the Minister in the defence of existing CAP support arrangements. For good reasons farmers in many countries, including EU member states, are protected to varying degrees from the full rigours of the marketplace and the basic economic laws of supply and demand. In the face of this, countries with little or no such support for their farmers consider that farmers in countries with higher levels of support are trading with unfair advantages on world markets. They are seeking, in the current WTO negotiations, to eliminate what they consider to be these unfair advantages. The supports provided by the European Union for their farmers are the prime target and European and Irish agriculture has to prepare a robust defence of the CAP in those negotiations.