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"Like you, I am also concerned as to the protection of consumers. That is part of the brief that I have been asked to undertake. I have noticed with interest and already welcomed the statement made by the French Minister for Trade and Consumer Protection, Mrs Lebranchu, who referred to the unanimous report of the Scientific Steering Committee over the weekend saying it would provide a reassurance to consumers. I welcome her statement in that regard.
There has been a little confusion in relation to the interaction between the Ad Hoc Committee and the Scientific Steering Committee. I should like to shed some light on that at this stage, having been given the opportunity to do so by the last question.
The Ad Hoc Committee is made up of experts on BSE. They met last Monday for the second time. On the previous occasion they were given the evidence from the French authority, which I had asked the French authorities to provide. They also asked for up-to-date information from the UK. They got that information also. They then met last Monday, considered all of that, applied their own experience to it and produced a report which, in effect, recited all of the issues involved and the aspects, dangers, risks and the pros and cons of the arguments relating to BSE. There was no vote taken by that committee. It is not their function to do so. It is an advisory ad hoc group that feeds into the legally established committee, established to carry out the function of advising the Commission in relation to these matters – that is, the Scientific Steering Committee. It is that committee that took the vote and it is that committee that was unanimous in its view, having reviewed all of the information that was contained in the Ad Hoc Group’s report and some other documents that were supplied by the Ad Hoc Group and obviously applying their own scientific knowledge. These sixteen scientists are drawn from most of the Member States. They are vets and scientists of the very highest calibre, at the pinnacle of their careers, people of the very highest reputation. They formed their view – which we now know – which was expressed unanimously.
So there is not any confusion or contradiction between any ad hoc view and the Scientific Steering Committee. That is the genesis of how the decision-making process actually takes place and the interaction between the Ad Hoc Committee and the Scientific Steering Committee."@en1
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