Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-13-Speech-4-228-375"
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"en.20120913.29.4-228-375"2
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"The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries gained duty-free access to the EU market following the Cotonou Agreement. This benefit, granted basically unilaterally, presupposed that the countries would take steps towards ratifying economic partnership agreements. However, 17 of these countries have not done so and the Commission proposes that, as of 1 January 2014, those countries which have not signed or ratified their agreements should be removed from the list of beneficiaries. The Commission argues that the current situation is not compatible with World Trade Organisation rules and that it is also a question of fairness, both towards countries which have fulfilled their obligations and ratified their agreements, but also towards developing countries which are not ACP partners. I voted for this report as I believe that the issue should be resolved safeguarding the objectives behind the economic partnership agreements, which are that the agreements should contribute to deepening the regional integration process while fostering economic growth and development for all the countries and regions concerned."@en1
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