Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-15-Speech-4-171"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Use of wood shavings to age wine artificially – Use of wood shavings as an oenological practice for European wines (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060615.27.4-171"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-15-Speech-4-1722
lpv:speaker	lp:Katerina Batzeli2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I think that your views on oenological practices and the use of wood shavings are very general and that the Commission has not perhaps understood the basic problem raised by their use. I shall summarise it for you: You said that the International Organisation of Vine and Wine allows these oenological practices. Have you been told, Commissioner, that international practices must without fail coincide with European practices and that we, as Europeans, are obliged to accept these oenological practices of new countries which undermine the European market? Have you been told, Commissioner, that the Commission can go to the WTO negotiations without safeguarding products of geographical indication, which include wine? Have you been told, Commissioner, by society, by viniculturalists, by oenologists, by the European Parliament, that you can create unfair competition on the European market? Obviously the message you read is very, very general and obviously I agree with my fellow members that the last step taken is to write the new practice on the bottle labels, in order to protect consumers. But who is protecting European wine? No one in this Chamber assumes that European wine must be the same as that produced 100 years ago. No one in this Chamber assumes that it must not be modernised and no one in this Chamber, knowing the new review of the COM in wine, will refrain from making innovative proposals. However, what worries us is that this simple, unopposed use of wood shavings, which you said can purely and simply liberalise or increase the competitiveness of poor quality commercial wine, may cause a fall in the price on the commercial market of good quality wines, of wines with protected names, of wines with geographical indications, of wines which no one in the global trade can undermine and you are opening a back door so that good quality European wines can be undermined cheaply. I shall not take up too much of your time, Commissioner, because we shall discuss this with the Commissioner in about a month's time and in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development next week. However, I would like to ask one thing of you, on behalf of all my honourable friends in this House: fragmentary, dumbing-down practices for the future of wine and the development of the common agricultural policy should be avoided. We are calling for your help. Otherwise we shall have a very tough dialogue."@en1

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