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dcterms:Date	"2012-09-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of the bilateral safeguard clause and the stabilisation mechanism for bananas of the Trade Agreement between the EU and Colombia and Peru - Implementation of the bilateral safeguard clause and the stabilisation mechanism for bananas of the Association Agreement between the EU and Central America (debate)2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120912.28.3-546-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-09-12-Speech-3-547-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Karel De Gucht2
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first of all let me reiterate our appreciation for the rapporteurs and for everybody who has been working on these files. I will try to give an answer to some specific questions that have been put to me, although not all of them refer to the safeguard mechanism. I was asked where we stand regarding the human, labour and environmental roadmap that the European Parliament requested from Colombia and Peru in its June 2012 resolution. I am fully aware of the importance that you, the European Parliament, attach to this roadmap. The latest information I have is that Colombia has already presented some preliminary information to the rapporteur for the trade agreement, Mário David, and the rapporteur for the present regulatory safeguards, Bernd Lange, which shows that the country is taking this exercise very seriously. They should be able to present a full roadmap proposal by early October. I also understand that the Colombian Deputy Foreign Minister is to meet Mr Lange to present his country’s plans. We have less information on where Peru stands, but the Commission is in regular contact with them to underline the fundamental importance of this exercise. I understand that Parliament is also in contact with the Peruvian authorities via your rapporteur. Secondly, on the banana stabilisation mechanism, which would not provide enough protection for the outermost regions, let me make a few remarks. I know that the outermost regions are especially vulnerable to a sudden increase in imports. That is the reason why we have negotiated specific conditions in order to safeguard their interests. These conditions reflect their particular situation and are based on a model we have previously used. This seems to have given them full reassurance in the past and I trust this will be the case here as well. The special safeguard for the outermost regions will still apply after the transition period has expired, which means after the banana mechanism has been discontinued. There were also some remarks on how to put it into practice. There I believe it is good practice that the Commission has a margin of appreciation. You could have substitution for example, as was mentioned in the debate, but we take these things very seriously. It is not only on bananas that we could get these kinds of safeguard requests from Member States. For example France has recently made a request to monitor car exports from Korea into the European market. That is a first step in the safeguard that we would obtain by monitoring. If we get such a question we duly research it and only take a decision after having considered all elements of the file. So we are very serious about this, not only where the major economic interests of the European Union are concerned. For example this concerns the economic interests of the outer regions. We will be very scrupulous in doing this. Turning briefly to the access to the Globalisation Adjustment Fund, I need to be frank with you on the issue of compensation. It is unprecedented for the outcome of the international trade negotiations to be compensated as far as the lost market shares for individual products and farmers are concerned, but I would like to recall that the Commission has made a proposal regarding the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, which the co-legislators are called to decide upon. Furthermore, the Commission has already examined the consequences of tariff liberalisation comparable to the tariff cuts in the current banana agreement in the context of the reform of the banana common market organisation in 2006. To reflect that, the budgetary allocation for the banana producers in the EU was substantially increased. It would be unsustainable and politically difficult to justify a further increase in the support for the banana producers. The banana producers in the outer regions are the most supported producers in the whole European Union. I can only reiterate that the banana reform, with integration into POSEI, has already included compensation of up to EUR 279 million per year, also for the expected future FTA trade deals, including the ones for Colombia, Peru and Central America. You will agree with me that this is quite a lot of money."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Karel De Gucht,"1 "Member of the Commission."1
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