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I welcome the decision taken by Parliament today to endorse the much-needed reform of the EU Sugar Regime. This reform will improve the competitiveness of the EU sugar sector by removing the artificial supports to production that have encouraged overproduction and dumping of subsidised EU sugar on world markets at prices often below the cost of production.
To this end I voted in favour of ending trade-distorting EU export subsidies at the latest by 2013. These subsidies depress world market prices, have an adverse affect on the ability of developing countries to trade and contradict the Union's own development policy objectives. I also voted to ensure that the EU honours its commitments to some of the poorest countries in the world to allow duty-free and quota-free access from 2009 to our markets for their sugar through the Everything-But-Arms Initiative. There should be no further delays and no restrictions as an incentive to these countries to develop their infant industries.
I regret that no new money has yet been agreed to help producers in the 18 ACP Sugar Protocol countries in view of the generous financial package available as part of this reform to EU producers."@en1
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