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"en.20021205.3.4-088"2
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"The market is merciless, because whoever produces and sells cheapest always wins – even if this winner is cheap only because of low pay, poor working conditions, animal cruelty, child labour and the absence of measures for the control of environmental pollution. In an ever larger-scale market, the production of age-old regional food and drink products is at risk. They can lose out to competition from a place where production costs are lower. If the free market strikes, cheese, wine, mustard, vinegar and cake will soon no longer come from the region of origin. It is therefore good, in the midst of the prevailing liberalisation of the economy, that the logic of the market is defeated by protecting these products and their areas of origin from imitation.
Yet we have to be careful that no new injustice arises. Under this arrangement old EU Member States are at an advantage compared with new ones. I have recently put questions to the Commission about Bulgarian feta cheese that can no longer be exported now that the name feta is given only to Greek products. The Bulgarian cheese now has to be sold under an unknown name and is therefore less in demand. It must therefore always be possible for protected names already assigned to be opened up to prevent the neglect of a traditional agricultural product in other more neglected regions or regions that have acceded later."@en1
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