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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we too wish every success for the negotiations in Hong Kong and are aware of the importance of the Doha Round, both for developing countries and for the European Union.
The Commissioner, however, was very categorical with regard to agriculture, stating that there would be no further offers because agricultural change would also permit other opportunities in other sectors.
When the European Community agreed the Fischler reform of the common agricultural policy, however, our farmers were told that the reform was necessary to present them at the negotiations at the Doha Round in a way that was credible and justifiable to the international community. The strain placed upon our farmers by this reform and the effects this reform has had have still not stabilised. Despite all this the Commission, rather than highlighting to our partners how much the farmers have already suffered, is proposing a new negotiating position which throws the CAP into question and forces our farmers to make further destabilising sacrifices, that is to say yet another variable they cannot sustain. In order to ensure greater access to the market the Commission is proposing reductions in tariffs which expose our producers to unsustainable competition from imported products.
It is clear that the Commission has not fully taken into account the impact this liberalisation is having upon Community agriculture: for certain products the reform is translating into an appreciable fall in prices and a steady reduction in exports. In short, the CAP is being sacrificed to obtain greater service and research concessions.
As for geographical indications, the Commission wished to make acknowledgement of them by our international partners a condition of the negotiations. The Commissioner himself confirmed yesterday, to the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture, that he will not consider the negotiations concluded unless these demands are met. It does not appear that our negotiating partners are ready to satisfy such a request. For this reason we ask the Commissioner to take a decisive stand so that we can move towards the creation of an international register for all geographical indications, which will allow our traditions of quality to be safeguarded.
Finally, I believe that an equally strong signal is needed on export subsidies. We cannot commit ourselves to abolishing our support for exports until a similar commitment is made by those countries which, even through different mechanisms, still support their own exports."@en1
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