Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-12-Speech-1-124"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:COM in the sugar sector2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010312.8.1-124"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-12-Speech-1-1252
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2000-03-07--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the EU’s organisation of the market in sugar is far and away the most protectionist in the world. It costs billions and has led to enormous inefficiency in the allocation of the world’s sugar production. It is incomprehensible that the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development should wish to see the system extended to 2006, especially when the Court of Auditors has pointed out that the Commission has withheld relevant information and ought to have dealt with the issues of the economic costs of surplus production, the effects on world market prices and developing countries’ income and the impact on the environment. You do not know whether to laugh or to cry when, in Recital 2, the Commission writes that account must be taken of the interests of consumers, knowing full well that the organisation of the sugar market triples consumer prices for all products containing sugar. In spite of everything, that is not, however, the worst of it. What really tops it all is the fact that the failure to reform the policy on sugar has obstructed the ‘everything but arms’ initiative whereby the world’s 48 poorest countries would be given access to the EU’s market. It is an initiative which, in the worst case, would have increased imports of sugar by approximately 100 000 tons per year. It is outrageous that the EU’s farmers cannot countenance such imports when they themselves each year pump 8.8 million tons of EU-subsidised sugar out onto the world market. It is deeply disheartening for this House that Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development should want to be still more protectionist than the European farming lobby. I would therefore call upon everyone who wishes to look after the interests of the developing world and of consumers to vote against the report."@en1

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