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"Mr President, Commissioner, current policy on regulating the sugar market in Europe has been a disaster. We pay much more for sugar than we did a few years ago. Production in some European Union Member States has been destroyed. Poland provides a clear example of this. Cultivation of sugar beet has been totally discontinued in certain areas that were traditional producers, for example, in the Kazimierz District in the Świętokrzyskie Region. One could describe this as the destruction of this agricultural sector. This has increased unemployment in these areas and, instead of being an exporter, Poland now has to import over 300 000 tonnes of sugar per annum. Production has fallen by 600 000 tonnes.
The present proposals from the Commission go in the opposite direction. Immediate market liberalisation is now being proposed. I would therefore ask: does the Commission not see that the effect of this could be to strengthen the position of market leaders while totally destroying small-scale producers? Would it not be sensible to abandon the present system in a gradual manner in order to avoid creating another shock in the market? Finally, would increasing present limits not be a better solution than immediate liberalisation?"@en1
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