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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, sugar reform was one of the most complex Community policy dossiers. Before finding political agreement, the Council should have taken Parliament’s opinion into consideration, in order to strengthen cooperation among the European institutions and to provide solutions commensurate with our expectations and the impending challenges. The outcome that has been achieved is, however, positive and moderately satisfying. I believe that Parliament’s contribution to the establishment of the compromise was vital. The own-initiative report adopted by this House last March provided a number of decisive pointers for drawing up the new proposal. The emphasis that this House placed on the social impact of the reform, with the establishment of a restructuring fund for the industry, is an essential part of our position which has been taken up in the agreement. It is certainly a painful reform, but it is inevitable if Europe is to meet its international commitments and at the same time ensure that the sector has a sustainable, competitive, long-term future. The compromise that has been reached is much more balanced than the Commission’s proposal in June and it provides for a series of positive measures: the chance to retain a proportion of coupled aid for those who continue producing; the support measures for sugar beet growers; the attention given to the regions penalised by the dismantling of the industry; and the creation of a diversification fund. The reform thus avoids totally abandoning production and its social and employment repercussions will be much less disastrous than we feared."@en1

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