Processed agricultural products as goods: trade arrangements, Uruguay round follow-up (amend. Regulation (EC) No 3448/93)

Following the decision at the September 2000 plenary session to defer the vote, the committee adopted a set of new, compromise amendments to the proposal which were tabled by rapporteur Dominique SOUCHET (UEN, F) following negotiations with the Commission. The compromise amendments sought to ensure that the impact of the new trade arrangements on each, individual, common market regime, especially the milk and sugar sectors, would be monitored closely with an interim report to Parliament at the end of the first year of the new system. They also stressed that the trade arrangements proposed by the Commission could only be a temporary, emergency solution and alternatives should be explored.�