Ved at afsvække Kommissionens forslag giver vi utilstrækkelige signaler til de mennesker i verden, som ønsker fair handel. En række socialdemokrater i Europa-Parlamentet vil derfor stemme imod en udvanding af forslagene.
Moreover, I cannot understand why, unlike all the other production sectors for which specific production-related payments have been maintained, or where the Member States have been given the opportunity to implement partial forms of decoupling, the tobacco sector is the only one where the Commission has decided to apply total decoupling.