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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Public health and food safety2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991005.3.2-030"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-05-Speech-2-0312
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Thomas-mauro2
lpv:spokenAs	member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-01-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-10-04--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2001-01-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have listened with a great deal of attention to the statement from the Committee on Public Health and Food Safety. The French delegation is extremely perplexed with regard to the comments we have heard if we put them back in the context of the crisis we witnessed several years ago, the BSE crisis or “mad cow” crisis. Indeed, following an assessment by the French national food safety agency, France decided last week not to lift the ban on beef from Great Britain. I was personally in favour of lifting the embargo with regard to Northern Ireland. In fact, there was no BSE there, or virtually none. Controls and traceability of products were of an acceptable level there. This is not the case in Great Britain: the disease has not been eradicated and the numbers of diseased animals there is still too high to prevent all risks of contamination and to guarantee consumers a healthy product. I have also taken note, like all my fellow Members, of the Commission’s intention to create a European agency for food safety and for medicinal products. I am resolutely opposed to this initiative. Member States must be in a position themselves to establish the level of precaution and food safety they wish for their citizens. We saw that the Commission was fully responsible for the slowness of the decision-making process in the mad cow crisis. I therefore do not trust the Commission to guarantee my fellow citizens an adequate level of health safety. The role of the Commission and the European institutions must, in the specific case of food safety, be limited to negotiating the precautionary principle within the framework of international agreements and to coordinating the policies of Member States and the European Union. The sacrosanct principle of the single market and globalisation must not be allowed to undermine the food safety which all the citizens of the European Union are entitled to expect."@en1
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