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"Mr President, as the Socialist shadow rapporteur on ‘Everything but Arms’ I welcome this agreement as a significant step in advancing fairer trade access to bring development to the world's poorest countries.
Commissioner Lamy has been accused of many things in bringing this forward: of a cynical attempt to buy votes in the WTO; of seducing developing countries into untrammelled free trade; of seeking to divide the solidarity of the ACP countries; of robbing the poor to pay the poorest. Each of these criticisms has some validity and we need to keep them at the front of our concerns as we take this issue forward. But Mr Lamy should be congratulated, after years of inaction, for helping us take a huge step towards bringing down agricultural protectionism which – according to the United Nations – robs developing countries of some USD 100 billion a year, more than twice the amount of international aid flows.
In his reply, let me ask the Commissioner to address some important questions. When Ingo Feustal of DG Trade told our Committee on Development and Cooperation on 6 March that Cotonou consultation procedures had been followed and joint impact assessments would be produced, the Commissioner should honestly accept tonight that Declaration XXIII of the Cotonou Agreement, requiring a joint-ministerial trade committee recommendation, was not observed and that no such assessments have yet been produced. Mr Lamy should commit the EU to providing the aid required by the LDCs to exploit the new opportunities and by other ACP countries to achieve transition. He should recognise that the EU is currently badly failing to fulfil its promise to the rum-producing countries.
Mr Lamy should guarantee that administrative arrangements will prevent hygiene rules being used as a disguised form of protectionism and, at the same time, apply rules of origin which prevent fraud but enable LDCs to add value to their raw materials.
Finally, Mr Lamy and I both come from sugar-producing regions. Like him I strongly resisted those who sought to scare our farmers and industry with wholly misleading claims about the consequences of the proposal. We all know they are dwarfed in reality by the impact of the sugar protocol within the common agricultural policy."@en1
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