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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Opening of the Millennium Round (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991006.6.3-177"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-06-Speech-3-1782
lpv:speaker	lp:Georges Garot2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, agriculture will therefore still be one of the main subjects of the next round of WTO negotiations, and our European institutions all seem to agree that we should seek the recognition of our European Farm Model, protect the consumer, and treat the Berlin agreement as the framework of the Commission’s negotiating mandate. We now have to benefit from this coherence in the face of our competitors, our partners in the WTO. In this respect, we should make it clear that anything that can be done to inform, sensitise and mobilise public opinion, will strengthen the determination of our negotiators in the eyes of the Cairns Group, the United States and developing countries. We can already see that the pressure of our civil society can have contagious effects in our competitors’ camp. The proof can be found in what is currently happening in the United States, for example, with regard to GMOs. It is therefore necessary, as an extension of this matter, and with the aim of creating a favourable balance of power within the WTO, to debate, to communicate throughout Europe regarding the direction to be given to globalisation and the liberalisation of trade. For us Europeans, the aim of this globalisation should consist of reconciling economic competitiveness with a global development which is more balanced, more durable and better distributed especially between North and South. With regard to agriculture, we should establish a system for trade in agricultural products which is fair, based on the market certainly, but also on more general considerations such as public health, the environment, employment and balance between territories. It is in light of these objectives that there is good reason to carry out, without delay, an intermediary appraisal of the application of the Marrakech Agreements. Mr President-in-Office, Commissioner, these aims should naturally form the basis of the principle of the global application of the agreement, which should take precedence in the negotiations."@en1

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