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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9307

16 November 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/trade
Parliament firm on need for GSP+ beneficiary countries to abide by international social standards

Strasbourg, 15/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday the European Parliament, by an overwhelming majority, adopted a joint resolution from the EPP-ED, PES, ALDE, Greens and UEN groups on the EU system of Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), which was adopted in June 2005 and runs until the end of 2008, in which it expressed its concern over repeated infringements of workers' rights in several beneficiary countries. With the general GSP unilaterally granting preferential access to the...

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