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"(NL) Mr President, in an internal market, the attention given to producing safe and healthy food must, of course, be organised on a cross-border basis. We appear to all be in agreement on this, but we still haven"t managed to bring it about, either in terms of prescriptive legislation or in terms of monitoring and control. However, the dioxin crisis is not the first crisis to occur in European food policy and neither will it be the last. Let us hope that we shall be able to manage future crises more effectively.
Of course the Member States must exercise more control, but there is also a need for control at the European level. That has already been made clear here this morning. It goes without saying that this must be brought about in a democratic manner, but what I ask myself is when is something at last to be done? Commissioner Bonino told us the week after the parliamentary elections that she didn"t think an agency would work out. Mr Mulder has already spoken here of the 5, 000 officials that would be needed to staff it. The new President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, told us yesterday that he is in fact considering such an agency. I should very much like to know which course of action the Commission actually intends to pursue, what actual steps have been taken, and whether the Commission intends to take account of the wishes expressed by the Parliament, both in the BSE reports and in the Green Paper on food, the resolution that we drew up on the subject.
However effective the control, we can never rule out human error. We have learnt that the consequences of problems can escalate to an unexpectedly high level. This raises the question as to the purpose of Community solidarity. Should this really continue to be restricted to natural disasters and veterinary illness, or should it also come into play when human error has serious economic consequences, for many entirely blameless SMEs, among others.
Hence my second question to the Commission. Has consideration already been given to creating a legal foundation for Community financial aid given to innocent victims?"@en1
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