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"Madam President, access for exporters and undertakings to the markets of numerous important trading partners of the Union is not always easy. It comes up against high tariffs and technical barriers, non-transparent and unfair practices, administrative and fiscal barriers and, in general, the incomplete application of the principle of national treatment.
I would also like to emphasise, as the rapporteur Mr Caspary also mentioned, the ineffective protection of intellectual and industrial property rights at global level.
Another parameter which affects the reduced competitiveness of European products and services is the obligation to comply with stricter product, public health, environmental and consumer safety specifications and health and safety regulations.
I am not in favour of watering down the European regulatory framework; I am in favour of pursuing terms of reciprocity with our trading partners.
Furthermore, at both bilateral and multilateral level, we need to ensure that not only economic dumping, as it applies today, but also social and ecological dumping are avoided.
In this particular instance, the European Union is rightly pursuing, within the framework of current WTO negotiations, the abolition of import duty on so-called ‘green goods’. At the same time, however, the possibility needs to be examined of imposing a ‘green tax’ on imports from states not bound by the Kyoto Protocol, in order to counterbalance the competitive disadvantage of European undertakings and prevent them from possibly relocating to areas with more flexible environmental rules.
The equilibrium of the global trade system depends on converging systems, institutional transparency and converging social and environmental specifications."@en1
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