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"en.20111013.19.4-207-000"2
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"By means of Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000, the European Union has granted exceptional duty-free access to the EU market for nearly all products originating in the countries and territories benefiting from the Stabilisation and Association process. These measures provide for the privileged access of the Western Balkan countries to the EU market, the main objective being to revitalise their economies.
In its resolution of November 2009, the European Parliament already called on the Commission to make every possible effort to mitigate the effect of the economic crisis on the Western Balkans. In that document, the European Parliament endorsed measures to promote economic development in these countries so that this economic development, in turn, will lead to political stability. The termination of the trade preferences in December 2010 deprived the beneficiaries of an objective economic advantage in their trade with the EU. Not only could the economic recovery of the Western Balkans be seriously jeopardised, defeating all the efforts made so far, but it could also have negative repercussions on their domestic reform and transition processes. I am therefore strongly in favour of extending the validity of the regulation on trade preferences to December 2015."@en1
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