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"With regard to beet sugar, it has not escaped me that sugar beet farmers and sugar producers were concerned about this initiative. It is true that the price of sugar in the European Union is now three times higher than on the world market. This does indeed present a problem. I should like, moreover, to reassure you that this initiative is not designed to solve that problem, given that the additional amounts which might be imported into the Community market are so small. In fact, it is a question of authorising access to greater quantities which are small as far as we are concerned, and therefore not destabilising, but which represent large amounts for these countries, given the size of their economies. The initiative is not therefore of a kind which will destabilise the highly protected Community sugar market. If need be, we shall include the necessary precautions in the amendments we are working on.
This ties in with Mrs Kinnock’s question. We are in fact working on a number of amendments with a view to making this proposal acceptable both to the Council and to Parliament. We are working on these in committee, but no decisions were taken on the matter this week, as Poul Nielson was absent on a visit to the Balkans.
Like Mrs Kinnock, I am aware of the difficult situation facing small islands. We shall ensure, by means of safeguard clauses or transitional periods, that these proposals do not have too serious an impact upon these regions.
Finally, I would thank Mrs Kinnock for informing me about the work of the meeting of ACP Trade Ministers which took place in Brussels this week. I was present at the meeting and broached this issue with the ministers who, following the meeting, voted for a resolution favourable to the Commission’s initiative."@en1
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