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dcterms:Date	"2016-09-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the SADC EPA States - Parliamentary oversight and civil society monitoring of EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20160913.54.2-1020-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2016-09-13-Speech-2-1021-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:David Martin2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, after receiving the Copa Cogeca letter outlining a so-called threat to our agriculture as a result of this agreement, I went immediately to look at the opinion from the Agricultural Committee on this report, and guess what? There isn’t one, because the Agriculture Committee decided that it was such a threat to our agriculture it was not even worth doing an opinion on this report. This is a ridiculous last minute scare story that has been thrown into the pot here. On the other side of the coin, some Members think that the Agreement is a threat to SADC countries and to their economies. As we have heard, though, from virtually every speaker, this is an asymmetrical agreement. It contains safeguards for infant industries and it protects sensitive products. As we have just heard, if we reject this agreement the situation is worse for African countries because they will have to revert to GSP or to other less—satisfactory regimes. I welcome what the Commissioner said about the sustainable development chapter. I am glad it is going to have adequate funding and I look forward to civil society being fully involved in monitoring this EPA. I am personally absolutely convinced that a properly implemented EPA with accompanying measures such as aid for trade will be good for Africa. Bear in mind that it will also be good for Europe, because we are more and more focused on trying to deal with the migration flows from Africa. A successful economic partnership between Africa and Europe can benefit Africa economically and benefit Europe by reducing those migration flows. I will be supporting this EPA tomorrow."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; INTA (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Cariforum-EU Parliamentary Committee (2014-07-14--2017-07-05)3 substitute; AFET (2014-07-08--2017-01-18)3 member; DROI (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"David Martin (S&D )."1
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