Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-14-Speech-4-113"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020314.6.4-113"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-14-Speech-4-1142
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Patakis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3
lpv:translated text	". All the proposed amendments in the report are an improvement on the proposal for a Council regulation, which is why we shall vote in favour of them. Having said which, all the amendments maintain the current regime which the Council proposes to phase out, albeit only for a very short period of time. This regime of specific measures applied over a ten-year period has been unable to deal with the serious problems facing the sector, which is important to nut-growing countries on several counts. The main reason it has been unable to do so is because the specific measures fall well short of actual requirements and, more importantly, of the Community's preferential customs regime for third countries such as the USA and Turkey. As a result, any efforts to improve the nut sector are undermined by a glut of very cheap imports of similar products from the USA and Turkey. Given that the ΕU has no intention of changing this preferential customs regime for the USA and Turkey, we need to really boost these specific measures, not just maintain them. Instead of which, the Council is proposing that they be phased out and Parliament, its amendments, is proposing that they be maintained for a certain period of time. We radically disagree with the Council's proposal because we believe in enhancing, not abolishing the specific measures. We shall be voting in favour of the European Parliament report, despite the fact that the measures are so limited. At the same time, we call for these specific measures to be enhanced and for an integrated development programme for this sector, which is important to certain areas of the Mediterranean on several counts and in which, with imports at about 50%, the ΕU is far from self-sufficient."@en1

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