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"Mr President, this debate revolves around two or three main themes. There is not much disagreement among us. First of all, I share fully in the deprecation and concern about Korean behaviour. I said this very clearly and that is why we are applying pressure. There is the preparation of the WTO action and there is the preparation of the temporary focused support mechanism.
Of course, and several speakers made this point, the system that we had in place until the end of last year was not really a good one. Why? It was unhelpful vis-à-vis the Korean threat and harmful to our own single market. The fact that it was unhelpful relative to the Korean threat is more than demonstrated by the facts. The Korean threat has persisted in spite of the contract-related operating aid. This has brought about major distortions within the single market and I found expressed in very different ways and words the concern about this adverse impact within the single market by a wide range of speakers from Mr Paisley to Mr Paasilinna.
A second theme that clearly emerged is that there must be a number of measures to support shipbuilding in Europe. I agree with the remarks to that effect made by several Members and I would like to thank in particular Mrs Langenhagen for her kind words of appreciation. All the attention has been focused on contract-related aid which is no longer there. Let us have a look at the list of those other forms of aid providing an incentive effect to EU shipyards which are still there after 1 January 2001 under Council Regulation 1540: aid for environmental protection in line with the general Community guidelines for such aid, aid for research and development in line with the general Community framework for such aid and I have already underlined this, aid for innovation which is not allowed in any other industrial sector except the automobile sector, regional investment aid for upgrading and modernising existing yards, but not involving the creation of new capacity, subject to certain caps below the normal regional aid ceilings, aid for rescue and restructuring in line with the general Community guidelines for such aid, subject to certain stricter provisions, aid for partial and total closures contingent on genuine and irreversible reductions of capacity. In addition to these forms of aid, aid in the form of credit facilities for shipowners in accordance with OECD rules will also continue to be permitted.
In addition, as I said, we are exploring the ways in which further, more intensive use of existing possibilities for aid could be obtained. That goes equally for national aid for research and development as well as possible Community funding measures. We can conclude that the previous system was both unhelpful for its declared objective, that is Korea, and vastly harmful within the single market. It had to be discontinued. It has been discontinued. This does not mean that the Korean problem is being ignored. We are working very hard on it both in terms of a strong negotiating posture and in terms of preparing, if necessary, the introduction of a temporary defence mechanism which, being more focused, would also be more productive than the old-fashioned system that has been scrapped as it had to be."@en1
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