European Parliament 24 June 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION P-1840/02 by Sérgio Marques (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Social and economic cohesion policy and the outermost regions in the post-2006 period.

would entail the risk that producers would alter their normal cropping plans in order to make use of this possibility. Were this so, then the effectiveness of the set aside regime would be weakened. Moreover it is important that set-aside areas may not be put to any agricultural use, which is incompatible with growing an arable crop.