17 Quotes by Mariann Boel

I am delighted we have managed to finalize this very important agreement, after 20 years of on-off negotiations,

GM farming has arrived, and we must have the administrative tools to handle all aspects of it.

Our proposal is clearly targeting helping developing countries, ... This is the first full- fledged proposal on market access.

Our proposal is clearly targeting helping developing countries,

to be very offensive on finding an end-date. It will not be the EU that is lagging.

We are confident that our revised proposal is fully in conformity with the ruling of the WTO arbitrators, ... It was always our intention that the level of protection would not change under our new import regime.

We believed that the system we proposed would have maintained access to our markets in a fair manner. We calculated the proposed tariff in a neutral and transparent manner, based on a comprehensive legal and economic analysis. We will now carefully study the decision before deciding how to proceed.

To say we have been holding back or not moving is simply not true.

We are surprised and disappointed that the arbitrators did not back our proposal,