Moreover, modules, cells and wafers have the same end use, converting sunlight into electricity and therefore cannot be used in other applications.

In the calendar year 2012, the level of payments in EU-15 will be reduced by a total of 13% (that is the current 5% plus an 8% increase in basic additional modulation).

Voluntary modulation is but fancy phraseology for a very unpleasant practice, namely government grab of farmers’ money.

With regard to the financial perspectives, which were subsequently approved by this House as a whole, the committee made it quite clear that Parliament has suspended its verdict with regard to voluntary modulation.

The modulation impairs the vision of stable agricultural rules until 2013, and will lead to what we fear greatly in the new Member States, that is, a partial re-nationalisation of agricultural policy, which the new, poorer Member States will not be able to afford.

8. Invites the Commission to study the effects of policies which encourage the transition to a new model of development that increases the job-intensity of growth such as the reduction and reorganization of working time, in particular their impact on SMEs and microenterprises, by assessing the effects on unemployment of a different scale of social contributions (between the first 32 hours and subsequent hours) and the possibility of making up for any reduction in contribution revenue by the lower costs entailed in reducing unemployment and asks for its results to be submitted also to the social partners of all the Member States;