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dcterms:Date	"2000-12-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20001214.3.4-122"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Gérard Caudron2
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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, may I say, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, that it gives us some satisfaction to see the Commission and the Council finally recognise what we have been repeating for years and especially over recent months: first that, in shipbuilding, Europe has set itself more constraints more quickly than its main competitors and, secondly and more importantly, that South Korea is guilty of blatantly infringing the rules of competition with its outrageous financial dumping. That is why we welcomed the Commission's recent efforts, even if I do take issue with the calculation methods used to show very high levels of European aid in chapter 5 of the Council report of 5 December. Due to a lack of time today, I shall explain myself directly to the Commissioner in writing on this point. More importantly, we have also taken note of the Council's conclusions of 5 December, a Council which agreed to safeguard the future by standing its ground with South Korea and not dismissing the possibility of reintroducing shipbuilding aid in May for the specific market segments hardest hit by Korean competition. This approach is also in line with the Treaty, although I do not have time to go into this in greater detail. Another positive outcome from the Council meeting was that the ‘ships arrangement’ for export credits dating from 1981 was updated at the SBT. Finally, we were interested to note the Council's willingness to consider aid for research and development. This point is very important to some enterprises, to enterprises which are, in fact, highly innovative. What we are calling for, what I am calling for today is the full and – more importantly – the immediate application of the Council's conclusions. If it should prove necessary to re-introduce aid in May 2001, we must do so without delay. We are also worried about the sixth framework programme for research and development: the ‘marine technology’ line in the fifth programme appears to have disappeared in the draft programme. I personally find this unacceptable; it should be reinstated in terms of quantity and in terms of the method for using these appropriations so as to simplify them. Finally, as from 18 December, we are, of course, counting on the ‘ships arrangement’ being examined at the OECD Group 6 meeting. I shall finish by congratulating Mr Langen – I appreciate his support for workers and for the need for state intervention in order to defend the economy – and by advising the Commission to make good use, in the future, of the lesson which it has been given in shipbuilding and in the shameless competition of certain countries of the world."@en1

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