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I should like to highlight a number of points and proposals contained in the opinion of the Committee on Regional Development.
Firstly, the abolition of quotas in the textiles sector may have harmful consequences in the EU’s least favoured regions. This is a key sector for the EU with huge potential, a sector that is capable of helping to turn economic and social cohesion into reality. The EU must support this sector as an industry, both at national level and across the Community as a whole.
A Community programme must be set up for the sector, and especially for the less favoured regions depending on it. Support for modernisation and promotion of the sector must be regarded as an objective cutting across EU policies. The safeguard clauses provided for in trade agreements need to be invoked as soon as possible, in order to protect the sector in the EU both at the present time and with an eye to the future. The 'emergency procedure' provided for in the guidelines for invoking the safeguard clause should now be launched, with all the categories affected being included.
I should like to add a few additional points. The prime concern of the so-called memorandum of understanding concluded between the Commission and China on 10 June 2005 is to legitimise the current situation, with its devastating impact on the sector, especially in countries depending on it, and this is something that we find unacceptable. As organisations involved in the sector have said, on the basis of data provided by the Commission, what was agreed in the memorandum has led to exports increasing from 49% in 2004 to the 318% projected for 2005, a far cry from the 8, 10 12.5% figures announced.
Furthermore, by 20 June, reported exports from China had already exceeded the 10 June agreement for almost all products. Inexplicably, the Commission forfeited the right to the safeguard clauses, thus restricting its implementation. The Commission and the Council have acted in a way that has clearly demonstrated their lack of commitment to defending this European industry. They are therefore the main culprits for the terrible situation of thousands of businesses and for the destruction of thousands of jobs, with devastating social consequences. Hence the proposals for amendments that we tabled."@en1
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