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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank our two rapporteurs for the work they have done on this issue.
It was necessary because we started from a very low base with the Commission’s basic proposal: no specific mention of the outermost regions, which are directly affected by competition from Latin American countries; no automatic activation of the stabilisation mechanism; no possibility for Parliament to ask for a safeguard investigation to be initiated; non-compliance of social and environmental standards as possibly constituting an unfair competitive advantage.
That is why it is extremely important that tomorrow’s vote validates the progress made on these points in the Committee on International Trade (INTA).
Nonetheless, it is not sufficient, because we know that the activation thresholds for both these regulations are so high that they render these mechanisms practically inoperable.
Furthermore, the Commission must provide for an additional financial envelope to support EU banana production. We must bear in mind that numerous jobs are at stake in these European regions, which already have record unemployment rates."@en1
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