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"Mr President, Commissioner, the last reform of the sugar sector wrecked Portugal’s sugar beet production sector. After major investment that ensured provision of a significant proportion of national sugar consumption, the country has become almost entirely dependent on imports of cane sugar, and is subject to the availability and price constraints of the international market in this raw material. The effects have been very visible in recent campaigns. Under these new conditions, investments made by a number of refinery-owning companies have now run into problems with a lack of the raw material, which compromises their ability to work at full capacity.
The Commission is partly responsible for this situation and cannot ignore or obscure that fact. The auctions of import licences did not meet the refineries’ needs. In this context, it is essential to reinstate quotas, so as to secure each country’s right to restore its sugar beet production capacity and then step it up to its full potential. Meanwhile, however, in the short term, we also need to resolve the shortfall in imports of cane sugar under conditions that enable refineries to go back to full capacity."@en1
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