Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-11-Speech-2-054"
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"en.20011211.3.2-054"2
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"Mr President, the current World Trade negotiations are important to the future development of the EU, particularly in the context of enlargement. I am satisfied that our negotiators understand the extent of this challenge and – I hope – draw on the benefit of hindsight resulting from our experiences with the current regime.
From an agricultural perspective, we must not allow the United States to dictate agricultural policy. On the last occasion they insisted on dismantling agricultural support and then proceeded to provide support for United States farmers at a level three times greater than that received by European farmers.
I am very pleased that in the preparatory talks we seem to have reached a satisfactory agreement on export refunds. From an Irish perspective, export refunds are crucial because of our dependence on exports to third countries. Equally we need to take a strong stand on food imports from outside the EU. We are investing heavily in the implementation of food safety measures and have banned the use of growth promoters. Yet EU farmers are expected to compete with imports from countries where those products are used.
Equally, in relation to sheepmeat, important to European, and particularly Irish, farmers – badly managed arrangements with New Zealand mean there are no controls to prevent a deliberate New Zealand policy to flood the EU market at peak production periods."@en1
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