EU SUGAR REGIME

Motion Text

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.