Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-13-Speech-2-601-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:International Cocoa Agreement 2010 - Child labour in cocoa sector (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120313.23.2-601-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-03-13-Speech-2-602-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Vital Moreira2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; INTA (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to thank all those who took part in this debate and, in particular, to thank the Commission for its final commitments as regards combating child labour; they are welcome, they are timely and we would like to tell the Commission that we want to believe in them. In fact, I think it is important, first of all, to use our political clout to encourage these countries to ratify and actually to implement the International Labour Organisation agreements on child labour. Secondly, development programmes should be used to make gains regarding the sustainability of the cocoa sector. Thirdly, the idea of making cocoa traceable should be explored, so as to create a ‘child labour-free cocoa’ label, which could be a means of asserting the importance of this issue in cocoa production. I would add one more thing: this matter cannot be absent from the EU’s international trade relations or from international trade agreements. I believe that this matter cannot be absent from discussions on economic partnership agreements with cocoa-producing countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States. To this end, the EU has a huge array of means at its disposal that it cannot fail to use in a wide-ranging and holistic way. This includes one that we have omitted but which I do not want to fail to mention, which is corporate social responsibility, which the Commissioner also mentioned and which seems to me to be important, given that a significant proportion of the major players in this area are European companies. It would reflect very badly on us if they also failed to play their part in combating this scourge."@en1
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