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"I voted against Amendment 3, because I am in favour of the restoration of trading standards in the fruit sector. I consider the Commission decision to abolish them, despite the opposition of a broad majority of the Member States and the production sector in question, to be unwarranted.
The EU rightly has the highest standards for agro-foodstuffs, for the benefit of European consumers. At the same time, quality policy is of strategic importance, as it is primarily on this that the added value of European agricultural goods on the global markets rests. However, compliance with imported products to equivalent quality specifications remains a problem. A catalogue needs to be made of all the private quality certification systems and a legislative framework of basic principles needs to be adopted at EU level in order to ensure that these systems operate transparently.
I am in favour of labelling all primary agricultural products with the place of production. As far as geographical indications are concerned, we need to keep the three EU systems for agricultural products and food, alcoholic beverages and wine as they stand. Safeguarding enhanced protection for geographical indications within the framework of bilateral trade agreements and the WTO is of primary importance."@en1
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