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"Ladies and gentlemen, I should like to express my disagreement with the dispute, which had not even been settled by the end of yesterday’s debate with the Commission, with respect to the legal basis for approval of this international agreement on the sustainable and lawful logging of tropical timber. I firmly believe that it should require the approval of Parliament, not just consultation. The agreement is inadequate, but we have nothing else at present and I am therefore pleased that we have adopted it so clearly today. We are making a stand against the plundering of tropical forests, but I am afraid that millions of tonnes of tropical timber will continue to pour into Europe at dumping prices, because it has not been possible to force environmental requirements into European trade policy. This is a paradox, because we pride ourselves on carrying the banner for the reduction of CO
emissions throughout the world. Something is not quite right here. Perhaps the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing, or vice versa."@en1
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