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Madam President, Commissioner, political persuasions aside, in November 2006 the governments adopted the general guidelines proposed by the Commission, and the Commission has now formally entered into negotiations, not least with South Korea and the ASEAN countries, on the basis of mandates decided on by the Council, on the proposal of the Commission.
In these matters, let us recall, the European Parliament merely has the power of speech and must make do with an assent procedure at the end of the term. The same is true, I might add, for the national parliaments. Trade negotiations remain a prerogative of the national and Community executives, which is something that we have been criticising for 25 years.
We should like it, in fact, if the European Parliament in particular were involved in defining the negotiating mandates via a codecision procedure and if a follow-up procedure could then be genuinely implemented, and, from this point of view, I believe that, as interesting as they are, the appearances made by Mr Mandelson before our committee are not enough.
My second message concerns rules. Since the Bruntland report, we have been calling for international trade rules to be adapted to the major demands of a new means of development benefiting all the peoples of our small planet.
It hardly needs pointing out, Commissioner, that the ecological footprint of our current lifestyles here in Europe represents three times the Earth's capacities. This state of affairs would therefore be intolerable if it were to become more widespread; that is the simple reason why international standards relating to the environment and social conditions must urgently be enforced, and not just encouraged, in these trade negotiations, an opinion that is unfortunately shared by neither the Commission nor the majority of this House, blinded as they are by short-term interests.
For these, and many other, reasons, and particularly in view of the impact that these negotiations could have on the future development of European legislation, my entire group will reject this report."@en1
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