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"Mr President, I am delighted to be speaking to Parliament and to be addressing you in the presence of Commissioner Fischler on the issue of clementines, which falls within his jurisdiction.
Ladies and gentlemen, the border closure that the United States is unilaterally imposing on our clementines sector is an unjustifiable trade action, which this Parliament must condemn.
The debate we are holding today must result in a resolution that urges the Commission, the Council and the Spanish Government to do their job and to do it well. Our objective is simply to protect something that we have been working on for the Community agricultural sector. The Commission must, therefore, act rapidly to put an end to this trade ban whose only purpose is to serve the interests of the United States’ own production.
We ask the Commission, in contrast to what the current Spanish Government has been doing, to set aside the philosophy of contentedly pursuing bilateral dialogue. We cannot enter into dialogue as if nothing had happened, with a party that is doing so much harm to the Community citrus fruit sector.
The Commission must deal with the conflict without losing sight of the fact that the United States has acted unilaterally, reneging on the agreement on health and plant-health measures and on the provisions of the World Trade Organisation in general. To put it another way, the Commission must take over the half-hearted action of the Spanish Government which has, to date, only obtained one proposal from the Americans, made with veiled threats and which consists of making changes to the protocol regulating our citrus fruit exports.
Lastly, it is crucial that the President-in-Office of the Council plays an active role in this dispute. The President of the Council of Agriculture Ministers must, without fail, appear before this House to explain the initiatives he proposes to achieve this return to normality of citrus fruit exports and how he intends to compensate producers, since they have already been seriously affected by this situation.
This is what we are asking of you, Mr Fischler, and I hope that you will be able to meet our expectations."@en1
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