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Mr President, contrary to the criticisms levelled at it by Mr Casaca, the Commission is confident that it has fully discharged its responsibilities in the sugar sector, which has been the subject of a number of proceedings regarding competition. In this regard, the Commission would like to point out that, over almost 30 years, it has collected evidence for a number of cases relating to the sector and has imposed penalties for both cartels at European level and agreements at national level and abuses of dominant position. All these decisions were subject to the control of the Court of Justice, which confirmed that they were fully justified.
In 2001, a fresh inquiry was opened following a claim, but the investigation did not yield proof of the alleged facts.
The sugar sector has, moreover, been the subject of specific inquiries in the context of the Regulation on the control of concentrations between undertakings. On the other hand, as Mr Casaca is aware, over a year ago, the Commission presented an initial reform of the common organisation of the market in the sugar sector. The objective of this reform was clearly to open the sector up further to competition. However, the European Parliament and the Council rejected the Commission’s proposals by a large majority. Nevertheless, the Commission published a call for tenders for the performance of an external study on competition in the sugar sector and on the impact of the common organisation of the market in sugar. The results of this study should be ready early in 2003."@en1
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