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dcterms:Date	"2001-10-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparations for the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011024.6.3-148"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-24-Speech-3-1492
lpv:speaker	lp:Eryl Margaret McNALLY2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, like others, I wear a badge which symbolises trade with justice. Open trade – yes, but only with rules. Our national and European interests, yes of course, but also the interests of the developing world – your approach, Commissioner, and ours. I am going to concentrate on two frankly difficult areas – TRIPS and the environmental aspects of trade which you have already mentioned. Firstly, TRIPS: what we now have in the agreement is not clear enough or good enough. Intellectual property rights are important in world trade, but we thought that the 25.5 million HIV positive people in sub-Saharan Africa could have access to cheap drugs under TRIPS. Let us ensure that this is made more explicit after Doha. Ironically, the United States, the world's most fierce defender of intellectual property rights is now faced with the dilemma of needing huge supplies of antibiotics to combat anthrax. Attitudes may change with new circumstances – in any case, they have to. Secondly, environmental standards. The EU faces charges of protectionism. Commissioner, you know that this is not the case, that we are ready to help developing countries in any way necessary as we are helping applicant countries, that we have science on our side and that we will not abandon our hard-won progress – why should we? Multilateral environment agreements cannot be discarded in the name of free trade and the precautionary principle must be explicitly included in WTO rules. This is a deal-breaker for us. We in the EU know more than any other part of the world how untrammelled free trade can be controlled through multilateral rule-making to the benefit of our citizens. Our achievements in the EU are relevant elsewhere, and we should defend them – your task Commissioner. I know you will be tough on our behalf. I hope you will be tough too on core labour standards. Seattle did not work – Doha can if it is fair and if there is a balance of trade and justice. Good luck Commissioner."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McNally (PSE )."1

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