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"Mr President, at the risk of upsetting Commissioner Dimas again, I will repeat some of the words I said last night. Only legislate, Commission, please, where it is needed in the new work programme. Enforce the regulations that we already have in place and enforce them right across the European Union. Do not bring in policies which actually discriminate against industry, business, opportunities within the European Union.
Commissioner Barroso mentioned something very close to my heart on the Committee on International Trade, and that is trade defence instruments. Use them where it is necessary to protect the health and safety of consumers in the European Union but do not use them as a protectionist measure. We live in, as he quite rightly said, a global economy, and I look forward to seeing that.
With regard to Commissioner Mandelson, I wish him well in the WTO Doha Agreement and I hope that we can move agriculture forward with the US and the European Union to ensure we get a settlement, building on things like Euromed, which are very important to the European Union. We have agreements with Morocco and we must look at these sort of situations. The US has just put in a free trade agreement on that.
Finally on EPAs: just over a month ago, Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson was standing strong on his commitment to conclude EPA negotiations by December. Let us hope that he has relaxed his position and will move forward on that."@en1
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