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"I should like to follow on from the question put by Mr Alavanos in connection with the 2001-2002 harvest, which is now a
. The problem is that this situation does not only affect last year's harvest, it also affects subsequent harvests. This year's cotton is being harvested as we speak. For the second year running, producers are tearing their hair out because the Greek government has arbitrarily set production at 275 kilograms per decare, whereas output is much higher and no-one knows what will become of it.
In February 2001, this House voted almost unanimously for an increase in cotton production because the European Union has a 70% deficit. Not only has the Greek government made no attempt to push this European Parliament resolution through, so as to protect Greek cotton growers and their produce; it has, as you have heard, been in an untimely hurry to apply the new regulation and has refused to make use of the European Parliament resolution.
Mr President, I call on you to stand up for us here and I call on the Council representative to take a stand on the Greek cotton farmers' request for an immediate overhaul of this disastrous regulation in order to protect farmers facing ruin and their product, which has the status of a national product in Greece."@en1
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