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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like firstly to congratulate Mr Papastamkos on his report and thank him for the willingness and cooperation he has demonstrated with a view to maintaining this House’s coherence and the general approach it has taken since the beginning of the Doha Round.
We know that we can count on the Commission’s support and logistics to ensure that the European Parliament’s delegation is given its proper place and that it is fully involved and informed throughout the negotiation process.
Our group will propose a few minor changes and then support his work tomorrow.
The results in Hong Kong were modest — we debated this back in January — but a road map was drawn up, with established time limits, the first being this 30 April.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to focus my speech on our course towards Geneva. It is encouraging that the negotiations have been rebalanced and that the discussions are no longer exclusively about agriculture. Progress is being made in terms of NAMA, services and trade facilitation, and development issues.
We still want this Round to close at the end of the year with an ambitious and balanced agreement in all fields of the negotiation. We fully support the Commission’s strategy and we still defend the principle of the single undertaking.
Success essentially depends on the political will and flexibility of the big players. The time has come to move ahead. We are counting on the negotiating skill of our competent Commissioners to persuade the United States to present new proposals with regard to internal aid to their farmers and to the emerging countries, in particular Brazil and India, to be flexible in terms of their positions and to present proposals leading to a genuine opening up of their industrial markets.
With regard to NAMA, bearing in mind that the Swiss formula has been chosen, an appropriate number of coefficients should be defined and the principle of less-than-full reciprocity applied, in order to ensure that the developing countries can protect their fragile industrial sectors and that European industry can strengthen its competitive position in access to the industrial markets.
In the field of services, we must continue in the direction embarked upon in the recent plurilateral negotiations and the requests presented on 28 February must be accompanied by serious revised offers on 31 July, always bearing in mind that a balance must be maintained between the liberalisation of the markets and the member countries’ full right to regulate activity in this sector, particularly in the field of essential public services.
Commissioner, in Hong Kong, we parliamentarians had a magnificent view of the bay, but we had to use binoculars in order to follow the work of the Conference. There is a gorgeous lake in Geneva. I hope that the same thing will not happen there."@en1
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