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"Mr President, the decision of the Council is brutal for the European, and therefore the Hungarian sugar industry, and hence it cannot be accepted. The European Parliament cannot allow the decapitation of the European sugar industry. If this brutal Council regulation remains in place, in 15 years’ time sugar production will be limited to two European Union Member States: France and Germany. This could be avoided if the excellent, thorough and balanced report of rapporteur Jean-Claude Fruteau is taken on board, but even the version proposed by Mrs Fischer Boel would be more beneficial for European sugar producers. The position of the European Parliament is that the price cut should be 30 percent, lower than the percentage specified in the decision of the Council, and compensation should be higher, of 100 percent if possible. It is also important to make sure that the transitional period does not exceed four years. Area-based aid should be linked to partial production, and this should be included as one of the conditions. This will be my request to the Commissioner. A more moderate price cut, together with the conditions mentioned, would grant more chances of survival to sugar beet production and sugar industry in midfield Member States, such as Hungary. Unfortunately all five Hungarian sugar factories are owned by foreign, French, German and Austrian sugar beet growers, who may decide to restrict production to their own countries. This would present a risk for a country with an economic production at average European levels, such as Hungary. This is why I am asking my fellow Members: let us correct the wrong decision of the Council."@en1

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