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"Madam President, thank you very much for this opportunity to explain the way I voted on the TEC agreement.
I think it is fair to say that we all welcome regulatory cooperation, especially where this will help to facilitate more trade and especially where it helps facilitate transatlantic trade, because all too often, our two large trading blocks – the EU and the US – are at loggerheads on trade issues.
However, we should ensure that any agreements that we come to on common regulatory standards are not used as an excuse for joint protectionism. We have to make sure that any global standards that we arrive at together are not used as an excuse to shut out producers and suppliers from other world markets.
Therefore, as we seek to adopt common global standards, let us make sure that we are also in a position to help producers from poorer countries to adopt those standards as well, so that we are not using these standards as an excuse to shut them out from world markets.
Altogether I think on both sides we welcome this agreement, and for this reason I voted in favour."@en1
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