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"Mr President, Vice-President Reding is not the only person present who rarely ventures into agriculture. The 2006 reform promised to guarantee supplies, and has clearly not delivered for traditional cane refiners. The sector is shedding jobs. I would like to say to Mr Dantin that nearly 1 000 jobs are imperilled in my constituency alone, and factories face the risk of closure.
Meanwhile, beet refiners pocketed EUR 5 billion of aid in 2006 – compared to EUR 150 million for cane refiners – and use a cross subsidy to muscle into refining. They are now creaming off profits since the market is oligopolistic rather than competitive.
Raw cane supply has failed to rise, not because preferential suppliers sold elsewhere, but because they did not expand as expected. Some blame should be attached to the Commission’s bureaucracy for its lack of efficiency in administering aid. Meanwhile, imports from Brazil or Thailand face big tariffs: normally EUR 339, and an average of EUR 183 even under special measures.
The treatment of traditional cane refiners is deeply unfair, and it is workers and consumers who are suffering. Frankly, the Agriculture Commissioner seems prejudiced, stubbornly prejudiced, against them all."@en1
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