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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-05-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Potato starch quotas2
dcterms:Language	"lt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050510.29.2-372"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-05-10-Speech-2-3732
lpv:speaker	lp:Laima Liucija Andrikienė2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Tėvynės sąjunga (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2007-10-08)3 member; DROI (2004-09-16--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". The issue of the production quotas of potato starch is very important for some of the new Member States of the EU, primarily for Lithuania and Poland. The problem is that the Agreement on the Accession to the European Union has established a very small quota for Lithuania for the production of the potato starch – 1 211 tonnes per year, which constitutes only 0.06% of the quota of the European Union. The quota for Lithuania, as you know, was established according to the reference period of the years 1998-2000, the period of the lowest production of potato starch in Lithuania, and it does not comply at all with the present requirements. I would like to draw the attention of colleagues and members of the European Commission to the fact that this quota does not even ensure the minimal economically justified utilisation of the capacity of the factories of this industry in Lithuania. The industry of the production of potato starch in Lithuania is composed of only two factories. The total technological capacity of those two factories is 13 000 tonnes of potato starch per year. Thus at present the Lithuanian factories operate using only 9% of their capacity. If today’s quota remains the same for the next several years, that will mean the disruption of the industry of the production of potato starch in Lithuania. The minimal, economically justified utilisation of the capacities of the factories would only be 4-5 thousand tonnes of potato starch per year; therefore, Lithuania requests increasing its quota to at least 4 855 tonnes per year, and that would comprise 0.25% of the quota for the European Union. In this context I would like to emphasise that during recent years the potato starch production quota for the European Union has not been exhausted, and therefore Lithuania’s request to increase the quota from 0.06 to 0.25% of the general level of the potato starch production quota for the European Union definitely will not have an essential effect on the indicators of the internal market of the European Union. However, the most important thing is that if the potato starch production quota for Lithuania is increased, that would secure social stability, workplaces and the infrastructure of two regions of the country that are closely related with the operation of those factories. Of course, to destroy something is much easier than to build it, and the problem is that, upon disrupting this sector of industry in Lithuania, the after-effects would have to be compensated, including the financial ones, and all this is happening at a time when the forecast says that the consumption and demand of potato starch in Lithuania is growing and will continue to grow, and that within the cellulose and food industries it will increase up to 8 000 tonnes per year. Hence, there is no doubt that the potato starch production quota for Lithuania should be increased."@en1

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