Export subsidies

24.2.2009

ORAL QUESTION H-0122/09
for Question Time at the part-session in March I 2009
pursuant to Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure
by Alain Hutchinson
to the Commission

In 2001 the EU undertook to move progressively towards eliminating all export subsidies on its agricultural products by 2013. However, the EU spent no less than EUR 2.5 billion in export subsidies for the 2006‑2007 period. Although the amount may be decreasing, it is still much too high. In an international context characterised by a food crisis and an explosion in agricultural prices, we should be moving much more quickly towards doing away with these subsidies, which have a dumping effect that is intolerable for millions of small producers in the developing countries. Can the Commission say, with the help of statistics and a timetable, exactly what its intentions are on this matter?

 

 

Tabled: 24.02.2009

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