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Mr President, bananas are not only produced in plantations run by powerful international undertakings that employ large numbers of badly paid workers; more and more small farmers are growing them too. Since the 1980s, cooperatives of small farmers in the developing world and non-commercial import organisations in Europe have struck up good working relations.
Over half the bananas eaten in Switzerland originate from imports based on fair trade. The key factor is not the country of origin, but the method of production that protects man and the environment. In contrast to Switzerland, the success of fair trade in the EU is hindered by a tradition of quotas and levies. This means that it is difficult to import bananas from countries other than those in Africa, the Caribbean or the Pacific Ocean, or, to put it another way, those countries that were colonies of the Member States up to half a century ago, unless they fall within the scope of import licences held by a number of big undertakings in Europe and America.
I have a question I would like to put to the Commission. Will it, after this arbitration, create room for a transition to the Swiss model or will volume restrictions only be replaced by higher import tariffs, which means that little will change, if anything? In that case, the Latin American countries will regard Europe as being in breach of its agreements."@en1
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