Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-11-Speech-2-746-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-09-11"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120911.43.2-746-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PECH (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member; AGRI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 unknown; Partido Socialista (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to begin by thanking the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development for the openness and availability for dialogue that he has been displaying to date in response to the many initiatives that we in Parliament have been conducting in this regard. However, Commissioner, dialogue is not enough if it does not produce results, which have been lacking up to now, unfortunately. Is it or is not true, Commissioner, that Europe’s sugar refineries have found it harder and harder to access the raw materials for processing since the reform of the sugar sector in 2006? Is it or is it not true that the forecasts made in 2005 for supply to the industry were overestimated and are far from being realised, despite the conclusion of new trade agreements with other countries? Obviously, I can accept any argument aimed at defending European producers, but that is exactly what this is about. In some European countries, such as mine, Portugal, we have industry and jobs totally dependent on access, under reasonable conditions, to cane sugar for refining. This is not a situation that we can analyse coldly and say to industry that this is merely a problem of the market that should be resolved by it. We all know that economic operators make decisions on the basis of what the European regulator announces and forecasts. It is also true that, in this case, the Commission’s forecasts were far from accurate. I therefore call on the Commission to make the necessary decisions, ensuring balanced operations between sectors that supply the European sugar market. This is also with a view to ensuring that the 4 500 jobs in Europe’s sugar-refining industry, which are so important in these times of economic and financial crisis, are not lost."@en1
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