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"Mr President, on behalf of the Socialist Group, I would like to join previous speakers in congratulating the Commission – because the Commission has made an effort to reach a consensus – and the rapporteur, Mr Dary, for his efforts to reconcile the differing positions.
From the point of view of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the situation is clear. The committee is in favour of the Commission’s proposal of maintaining the quota system by means of what is known as the “regatta” or the ‘first come, first served’ system, although, of course, it is not in agreement with the proposals aimed at the automatic transfer of the current quota system to a ‘tariff only’ system.
This conforms to the general philosophy adopted by this Parliament’s Agriculture Committee, which is that agriculture is not a normal industrial product and it is not therefore appropriate to apply generalised rules which are valid for industrial products. The recent ‘mad cow’ crisis, which is going to cost the European Community, its producers and consumers dearly, is an example of how agriculture cannot be reduced to the level of industrial production and marketing.
In this regard, I would like to remind you that banana production is not alien to the Community. It is a form of production which takes place in a range of special Community regions, the outermost regions, which suffer a range of difficulties in competing in the markets and one of whose few products is precisely this one – the banana. As Mr Fernández Martín pointed out, Commissioner Fischler has recently been able to observe at first hand the state of the agricultural economy in these regions, which are so distant from the continental Community context.
Therefore, the proposals in the Dary report, approved unanimously in the Agriculture Committee, refer to the need to take account of the structural problems of these outermost regions, which furthermore have a new legal basis in Article 299(2) of the European Community Treaty, introduced by the Treaty of Amsterdam, and which is currently awaiting the adoption of the relevant proposals by the Commission.
The Socialist Group is therefore in favour of Mr Dary’s report and, of course, against Amendment No 36, presented by Mr Vatanen and other Members."@en1
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