The further termination rates move away from incremental cost, the greater the competitive distortions between fixed and mobile markets and/or between operators with asymmetric market shares and traffic flows.

8. Points out that many Mediterranean countries have expressed the wish to preserve their trade preferences vis-à-vis the Community market; considers that maintaining this preferential and asymmetric system is incompatible with a general liberalisation of the agriculture sector; emphasises, furthermore, that it is in the mutual interest of all Mediterranean countries to preserve certain tools with which to manage supply on their respective markets; calls accordingly on the Commission and the representatives of the SEMC to seek in the course of the multilateral trade negotiations being conducted within the World Trade Organisation (WTO ...[+++]) any possible means (including the classification of milk, fruit and vegetables as sensitive products) of limiting market imbalances and also any possible asymmetry and distortion of competition between the agricultural markets in the SEMC and those in the EU which might cause farmers in either group of countries to suffer loss;

This asymmetric market opening leads to distorsions of competition.