Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-25-Speech-2-026"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Restructuring of the sugar industry - Common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070925.4.2-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-25-Speech-2-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I should like to thank Ms Batzeli very much for her report. I should also like to thank Mr Deß very much for shadowing this report for the PPE-DE Group. I think it was Margaret Thatcher who once said ‘you can’t buck the markets’, and the problem with the whole sugar regime is that it is exactly what we have tried to do over the years. I commend the Commissioner and what she is doing, because it is a very complex situation and one that we need to sort out. We need to take more sugar out of the system and we need to make Europe much more competitive in sugar production. The whole thrust of CAP reform now is to give support to farmers for environmental reasons, but also very much to push them in the direction of producing for the market place. I think that the reform of sugar this year is perhaps going to be easier than in previous years, for the simple reason that we have now seen cereal prices three times what they were last year. Therefore, some sugar producers will perhaps decide that they will take the money in the restructuring and that they can grow cereals or oilseed rape and they can make a good living from that. Because, whatever we do with sugar, we have to be sure, as I said, that we move in the direction of reducing the amount produced in Europe – but we must still allow the farmers to have a living from the land. We also have to consider not only balancing sugar production in the European Union, but the fact that there are ACP countries from which we import sugar. In my own country, the United Kingdom, Tate & Lyle imports over one million tonnes of sugar. It is very concerned to make sure that it can get access to this sugar at the same time as we are reducing and reforming the sugar regime. I would ask the Commissioner to look sympathetically at that side of the argument as well."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 chair; AGRI (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-04-06)3 substitute; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-14--2008-01-15)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2007-02-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Neil Parish (PPE-DE ). –"1

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