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"Mr President, Commissioner, this is the first time that Parliament has worked on a matter of this kind under the same conditions as the Council, in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty, to agree to the amendment of a regulation that is, as the rapporteur has said, a well-planned undertaking.
This regulation enables us to resolve a conflict which has been ongoing for many years, as previous speakers have pointed out. The European Union banned imports of hormone-treated meat. The United States and Canada’s response to the European Union was an increase in tariffs on certain products they considered sensitive. This meant products like chocolate, bread, pork products and fruit juices, with the effects felt over a wide area, particularly in my country, in the Levante region.
This agreement is, firstly, good news for European consumers. The European Union was successful in retaining its ban on imports of hormone-treated beef and, in exchange, has agreed an additional quota for imports of high-quality beef.
Secondly, it is beneficial for European producers who were disadvantaged by the tariff increase, which represented an additional burden of EUR 190 million for the European Union: EUR 6 million for my country alone.
Also, it thereby increases market quotas for these products in the United States and Canada, whose exports have fallen by 90% over the last ten years. We should therefore also congratulate the European Commission on these negotiations, which prevented the United States from applying ‘carousel’ sanctions in 2009 to increase the number of products subjected to higher tariffs.
Finally, we support the commitment that the European Union has obtained, which ensures protection for European consumers and enables us to normalise trade relations with the United States and Canada.
Negotiations of this kind are a good example of how conflicts may be resolved. We have been talking about beef imports from the United States. There has not been an outbreak of spongiform encephalitis for some time and we are now free of risk. Therefore, we should ensure that we resolve long-standing and hitherto insuperable problems through this type of agreement."@en1
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