1 Amendments of Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ related to 2010/0256(COD)
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36 a (new)
Recital 36 a (new)
(36a) As the last POSEI support Regulation, namely Regulation (EC) No 247/2006, was adopted in the light of the agreed WTO European market access tariff of EUR 176 per tonne, consequently the tariff laid down in the WTO agreements on trade in bananas and the further reductions granted in trade agreements with the Andean countries and the countries of Central America were not taken into account in the POSEI financial envelope; therefore a new updated, comprehensive and external impact assessment should be completed at an early stage and, if it shows adverse effects on EU banana producers, the financial resources available under the POSEI programme should be modified in order to introduce appropriate compensation and measures to increase the competitiveness of banana producers in the outermost regions of the Union.