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Mr President, all of us are well aware of how tedious and time-consuming negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) can be. My feeling is that this has indeed been the case with this issue. On the one hand, it is not hard to see that only 18 of the 36 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries which have embarked on or signed an EPA have ratified it. The remainder are therefore encouraged to conclude and implement an agreement quickly, if they do not want to see their negotiation efforts ruined by, for example, the deadline of 2014. On the other hand, we have all known, since 2007, that this regulation was merely temporary, being incompatible with the rules of the World Trade Organisation.
These facts therefore lead me to believe that our rapporteur’s proposal is the best possible compromise if we want to give the Commission services and the ACP countries the time they need to conclude their EPA negotiations. Nevertheless, if the date 1 January 2016 does not win a majority in tomorrow’s vote, I would call on my fellow MEPs to reject the Commission’s proposal."@en1
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