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"Madam President, I will be very brief because Commissioner Byrne is going to reply to your detailed questions. I think that here, too, the Commission must prove it is capable of working as a team.
You said that the White Paper must be very ambitious, that it must have a precise timetable and the Commission will undertake to achieve this. We must also clarify the matter of the precautionary principle because it is a framework principle which everything hinges on. It is unthinkable that without dealing with this aspect we could have rules which would convince all consumers and clarify the system. During the debate we must keep in mind – and this is important – all the problems of agriculture and reward quality agriculture, as well as giving a lot of room to the matter raised by Mrs Roth-Behrendt of the relationship between technical and democratic control. This is why we have introduced this debate today. It is an extremely important issue because we must have – let us call it – an agency, which will take these two fundamental principles into account. This agency, this structure – and here I am addressing Mr Nisticò in particular – absolutely must be in contact with the citizens. So the monitoring structures must be adapted and be decentralised to a local level. We must not create a centralised bureaucratic structure.
The last matter, which I believe to be of enormous importance for our future work, was raised by Mrs Roth-Behrendt and Mrs Thyssen, and is the fact that various Commissioners and various Directorates-General are involved with Parliament. I would respond that this is – for better or for worse – our way of working. This is a very complex question which not only involves the Committee on Public Health, but also the Committees on Agriculture, Research and Trade. We cannot consider simplifying complex matters. We must have a coordinator, but also keep in mind that the whole Commission – and there are various Directorates-General – are still involved. Our problem is to constantly coordinate this process and not try to reduce it by taking away the role of the various Commissioners.
We discussed this subject in depth at the meeting of Committee Chairmen and we are trying to improve things because I do not think we can solve the problems by pretending that the competences have been simplified or unified. We have to be aware of the complexity and assume the responsibility for coordinating, but make it understood that the other Commissioners also have their responsibilities for this delicate task.
I now invite Commissioner Byrne to reply in detail to your questions on this debate which I am finding very constructive."@en1
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