PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
EU SUGAR REGIME (16 May 2005)

That this House accepts the need for reform of the EU sugar regime to address the issue of excess production and meet World Trade Organisation concerns; notes that British sugar growers and refiners are amongst the most efficient in the EU whilst not contributing to the EU surplus; supports the principle of quota transfer to enable efficient producers to stay in production; recognises the considerable environmental consequences in Brazil which would result from complete liberalisation whilst destroying the sugar economies of the ACP and LCD states; and believes that reform should focus on enabling non-surplus producing countries such as the UK to compete within the EU against higher cost producers.

Sponsored by:
Sir James Paice (Conservative)