Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-03-Speech-1-171"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-04-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060403.14.1-171"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-04-03-Speech-1-1722
lpv:speaker	lp:Albert Dess2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; INTA (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to start by extending the warmest of thanks to my colleague Mr Papastamkos for his report and for the clear and explicit views on what sort of result we would like to see emerge from the WTO. The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, too, would like to see a successful conclusion to the Doha Round – but not at any price. It is not acceptable that the few should get all the benefit while many others are left behind. What we need is fair trading conditions. I welcome the report’s insistence on the necessity of a fundamental reform of the WTO. It is not enough for the WTO to be given the main objective of extending trade. Environmental standards, consumer protection standards, animal welfare standards and social minimum standards must also be laid down as goals for the WTO. It is not acceptable that the ultimate winners from the WTO negotiations should be those who plunder nature and exploit people. It is unfair that European farmers engaged in food production should be required to comply with one requirement after another, while such requirements do not apply to imports. Helmut Kohl, the former German Federal Chancellor, once said that he would like to see apply to food imports what already applied in the case of the motor industry, with cars from Japan, the USA, and Korea being allowed to be imported into Germany, but allowed to be driven on the roads only if they comply with the high technical standards that are imposed here. If foodstuffs meet the same high standards as we European farmers do, then we need have no fear of global competition. We are perfectly happy to face up to this competition once we have an outcome with many, rather than the few, sharing in growing prosperity."@en1

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