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To guarantee the price for Sugar Protocol countries, prices have always moved completely in line with EU institutional sugar prices, so there has never been a guarantee for a fixed price for the Sugar Protocol countries. However, these Sugar Protocol countries will benefit from a lower cut in the prices until the 2008-2009 production year. This will give these countries a period of three years to adapt to the new price support arrangements within the European Union.
During 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, the reference price for raw sugar will decrease by only 5%, while the producers of sugar beet in the European Union will see a decrease of 20% the first year, and 27.5% the following year. The reason for this decrease of only 5% is due to the fact that refiners and therefore the ACP suppliers will be exempted from the restructuring levy. They do not have to pay the levy at all. However, refiners will lose the benefit of the refining aid which will be abolished in the context of the reform.
It is quite clear that the different conditions for the ACP countries after the introduction of a reform within the European Union has been discussed at length before finalising the political agreement in the Council. It is quite clear and it has been from the very beginning that it was important to secure the period of the last six months of 2006, which is outside the next financial period. Therefore the decision was taken to allocate EUR 40 million specifically for the period from 1 July until the end of this year.
For the period within the next financial perspective it has been quite clear that the Commission’s wish to allocate a significantly higher budget than the aforementioned EUR 40 million will be dependent on the ongoing discussions on the financial perspective for the next period. But it is a significantly higher amount than that mentioned. I can only say that within the Commission proposal, a budget of EUR 190 million a year was in the budget and I therefore hope that there will be an understanding also in this Parliament of the need to help these ACP countries, specifically in a transitional period."@en1
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