1 Amendments of Filip KACZMAREK related to 2010/0059(COD)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The European Union (EU), as a contracting party of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is committed to mainstreaming trade in development strategies and to promoting international trade in order to advance development and poverty reduction worldwide. The EU also acknowledges that efforts are required to effectively improve the standard of living of the people concerned and to improve compliance with labour and safety standards. The EU further acknowledges the need to ensure that assistance is allocated in a way that does not distort competition on the market, but nevertheless takes account of farmers, who are now at the beginning of the production chain and yet only receive a very small percentage of the final price paid by European consumers purchasing bananas grown in the ACP countries.