Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-04-Speech-1-078"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-09-04"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000904.6.1-078"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-04-Speech-1-0792
lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, we very much welcome these two positive reports and congratulate the rapporteurs and fully support the vital importance of the MEDA programme. In this respect it is critically important that the funding should be properly applied. I would urge the House to support the two amendments tabled to the Piétrasanta report in the name of this group. As a member of Parliament's delegation to the Mashreq countries and Gulf States, I am concerned that the association agreements with these countries should be ratified as expeditiously as possible; the Jordanian agreement in particular is only slowly proceeding through the ratification process. Our amendment urges the Member State parliaments which have not yet ratified the agreement to hasten this process. Our other amendment refers to a degree of hypocrisy in our approach to developing a fully free-trade zone in the Mediterranean area. As Mr Valdivielso pointed out in his speech, the EU has a large trade surplus with this area. Yes, we call for a free-trade zone but when it comes to those products which these countries could most readily export into Europe – i.e. agricultural and food products – we maintain trade restrictions. Our friends in these countries understandably question our sincerity. I accept that free access to Europe for Mediterranean products poses problems for producers in our southern Member States, but surely this problem could be compensated at least to some extent in the CAP. So our second amendment calls for the acceleration of progress to free trade for all products including food and agriculture. I would appreciate the Commission's estimate as to the likely timing for achieving a full free-trade zone in the Mediterranean and how it intends to implement this. I would urge my colleagues to support these amendments along with the two excellent reports under consideration."@en1
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