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"Mr President, today we are debating three reports tabled before Parliament on the reform of the sugar market. As a representative of a new Member State, Poland, I should like to raise two grave concerns about this reform.
Firstly, the reform has been made necessary by the excessive amounts of sugar exported by two countries in particular, namely Germany and France. These exports amount to nearly 2 million tonnes, and it is France and Germany that should bear the cost of this reform by significantly reducing the amount of sugar they export. Since Poland exports a mere 90 000 tonnes, it can only limit its production within these constraints.
Secondly, sugar production limits have been imposed on sugar factories rather than on farmers in Poland, unlike in other EU Member States. The majority of sugar factories in Poland were bought out by German and French investors, who paid around EUR 200 per tonne of production limit. Given that they will be compensated to the tune of EUR 730 per tonne of abandoned production, the owners of such factories will receive nearly four times more than they paid. What is more, they will still own the industrial assets, or in other words the buildings, land and machinery.
I should like to address these two grave concerns to the Commission and to the Council, as well as to the Commissioner, who is present in the Chamber today. All of these latter believe that they have come up with a first-rate idea for a reform of the sugar market."@en1
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