Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-25-Speech-2-019"
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Mr President, the reform of the sugar production sector in its existing shape is unacceptable. It strikes primarily at beet producers and sugar factory workers. The exceptional activity shown by European concerns in buying up sugar factories in Eastern Europe prior to their accession to the EU gives rise to the suspicion that this reform was already being planned back then, with vast sums in compensation for the owners of sugar factories who will be shutting them down.
In the new Member States, during the accession period farmers invested huge sums in upgrading their farms, including beet production. Two years on it has turned out that production needs to be restricted, while the main beneficiary of the compensation for giving up sugar production will be the new owners of the sugar factories. It is estimated that in Poland alone around ten factories will be closed.
The proposed adjustments, which allocate higher sums from the restructuring fund to growers, are good. My doubts, though, arise from the support for producers who have been buying sugar factories over the last few years, because could it not just be that they have been buying them with a view to closing them profitably?"@en1
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