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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010215.4.4-103"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-15-Speech-4-1042
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". The Greek economy is more dependent than that of the other Member States on small businesses in the agricultural sector. That applies particularly to crops that can only be grown on the southern edge of Europe, such as cotton and tobacco. Both crops have their disadvantages. Tobacco is bad for public health. Cotton is a useful product, but its cultivation involves the use of large amounts of toxins. Those toxins find their way into the scarce water sources or pollutes arid land. In Egypt and Uzbekistan, countries that are far more dependent than Greece on cotton production, this has caused major environmental problems. That consideration might be a reason for me not to agree with the report of my fellow group Member, Mr Korakas. From a Greek perspective and particularly from that of the small farmers in that country, the report is of course quite justified. Its starting premise is the protection and expansion of production and the creation of the financial preconditions for that. In the longer term, however, those considerations of incomes policy must be weighed against environmental interests, the conditions under which imported cotton is produced and the burden of the common agricultural policy on the financial resources of the EU. Until those matters are tackled in a fundamental way I am able to support the Korakas proposals."@en1

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