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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this reform of the Generalised System of Preferences adds to the view of human rights as an indivisible reality, by directly linking our concepts and policies on trade, development and human rights.
The reform of the GSP effectively incorporates the idea that the best commercial preferences should be conditional upon respect for certain standards in terms of social protection, human rights, good governance and environmentally-sustainable development into our view of trade as an instrument for development and of development as a collective human right. Unifying all these criteria within a GSP+ category, as well as simplifying the system and making it more generous, as the Commissioner has said, moves in the right direction in terms of the coherence of Community policies affecting developing countries and corrects the fragmentation which has traditionally been dealt with within development policy.
As spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Human Rights Sub-Committee, I must congratulate the Commission on this aspect of its proposal, although other points of it can clearly be improved, particularly those which provide for rigid mechanisms for the preferences established for the less developed countries. We shall closely follow the reform, its application and its effectiveness in terms of good development and, above all, in terms of human rights."@en1
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