Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-06-Speech-2-202"
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"Madam President, everyone acknowledges the role aid can play in improving development, and President Barroso himself promised EUR 300 million more for aid for trade at the G8 Summit this year. As the budget spokesman for the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, I asked the Commission how much we currently spend on aid for trade, and it took them two weeks to work it out, because it is currently spread over around 120 different budget lines. In fact, we spend around EUR 700 million already.
The Trade Committee believes that we need to bring more visibility to aid for trade, that we need to make it easier to mobilise aid for trade and that we need to send the right signal in advance of the WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in Hong Kong in December that we take aid for trade seriously.
We are therefore going to propose the creation of a new budget line called 'Aid for Trade'. A very modest proposal because, for 2006, we are not actually asking for any money, we are simply asking for a PM line and the creation of a legal base. Therefore, in future years, if the political will is there, we will have the legal base to bring under one single heading the aid we already give for trade. This will be an important step forward in terms of being able to mobilise these funds in the future."@en1
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