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lpv:document identification number	"en.20050706.31.3-427"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-07-06-Speech-3-4282
lpv:speaker	lp:Karl von Wogau2
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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I propose to start by raising a number of issues relating to the Schengen Agreement, for I have a very clear recollection of the circumstances surrounding its adoption, which was heralded by a number of things happening at borders, where customs checks were abolished and VAT was no longer to be levied; veterinary controls at borders were abolished, the collection of statistics at borders was consigned to the past, and checks on branded products came to an end. At the same time, export subsidies and import levies were done away with too, the effect being that the borders really were open. Last to go, and at the hands of the Schengen Agreement, were controls on persons. The very opposite is the case in Switzerland, where all the things I have listed remain in place, and only controls on persons are to cease. I therefore want to raise the question of whether our Swiss neighbours have not managed to extract the only raisin from what I, in this House, have called this very dry bread, and, in these negotiations, they appear to have done just that. At any rate, that is the impression that the people in my electoral district on the Upper Rhine get; they are constantly pointing out the ways in which the things that the Swiss regard as important have actually been dealt with. There are, though, very serious problems – the noise made by planes at Zürich airport is one of them – that have been left untouched, even though they are bilateral in nature, affecting both Switzerland and Germany alike. The second issue is no less important and has to do with farmers on this border. The very great difficulties that the German farmers face have to do with the fact that the Swiss pay much higher subsidies, so that the Swiss farmers are able to pay higher rents, and now they are going to get aid from the European Union too. It is enough to defy anyone’s powers of comprehension. If adequate account cannot be taken of these interests, then something has gone wrong with the negotiations at some point. Our opinions differ as regards the legal basis. It is our belief – and our own Legal Affairs Committee confirms it – that these mixed committees really are institutional in character. That being so, I do not think this House is in a position to deliver a definitive opinion, and so we will have to go on discussing this. I do not therefore think that it will be possible for the European Union to ratify this agreement at present."@en1

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