Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-04-07-Speech-4-081-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-04-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU tomato imports from Morocco (Petition 1565/2009) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110407.5.4-081-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-04-07-Speech-4-082-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Gabriel Mato2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2010-07-07--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2012-02-02)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2009-09-16--2012-02-01)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the tomato growers of the Canary Islands, Murcia, Andalusia and the Community of Valencia, all of them European Union producers, need the Commission to take robust action with regard to an unfair situation which is causing them serious damage. Fraud is being committed, and you know it. Thanks to its agreement with the EU, Morocco benefits from an entry price to which it does not adhere. In addition, we should not only look at 2007, but also at 2010. The Commission is well aware that Spanish tomato growers have to compete with Moroccan growers under unfair conditions, as they must bear much higher production costs stemming from the strict European standards on quality, food safety and workplace safety, as well as restrictions on pesticides which are not required of third countries. Even so, our growers, with great effort and commitment to quality, continue to work hard to save their crops. Thus, it is unacceptable for the Commission to ignore the malfunctioning of the entry price regime, whose complexity encourages fraud, as the European Anti-Fraud Office itself does, and for the Commission to look the other way when the tomato quotas agreed with Morocco are being contravened. It is not enough for the Commission to tell us that surveillance is the responsibility of the Member States. If they fail in their duties, the Commission must act. It is intolerable for regulations on Moroccan import quotas to be breached, and for the applicable customs duties to go unpaid, without the Commission taking any action. The Commission would have us approve a new agreement with Morocco. Unless we are given assurances that the price system will be modified to prevent unfair competition between Moroccan and Spanish produce, we will certainly not be supporting that initiative. It is your obligation to ensure adherence to agreements, but it is also your obligation to defend the interests of growers in the Canary Islands, Murcia, Valencia, and Andalusia. Do it before it is too late."@en1
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