Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-16-Speech-4-086"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991216.2.4-086"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-16-Speech-4-0872
lpv:speaker	lp:Georges Berthu2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2001-01-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Canada (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2000-09-20)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Commission could not have produced anything better than this text on labelling as evidence that France is right to keep its ban on British beef. We have at times been told that this ban is not really necessary and that beef only needs to be labelled properly to ensure that the reasonable consumer does not buy British beef. Yet this is strange reasoning given that it is tantamount to accepting the deaths of those consumers who misread the labels and is clearly an unacceptable abdication of the State’s responsibilities. However, this reasoning is now invalidated by today’s text as we are being told that the beef labelling obligation is to be postponed. What is going on? At the beginning of 1997, in the middle of the mad cow crisis, the Council decided to implement an identification system for bovine animals from the place of production. It also decided on the labelling of beef which would initially be optional but would become compulsory from 1 January 2000. With this fateful date now approaching, the Commission confesses that nothing is ready and the obligation cannot be applied for another year. This means that, after years of negligence, we are still incapable in the European Union of ensuring the effective traceability of beef. A French consumer who buys ravioli from Italy cannot be absolutely sure that this does not contain meat from mad British cows. In view of such negligence, we are stunned that the Commission is daring to bring France before the Court of Justice for having kept its ban. We have never before realised to what extent the free movement of goods predominates over any other consideration in the single market. It is true that the French Government has allowed itself to become legally trapped by accepting the Treaty of Amsterdam which deprives France of its right to protect itself. Yet this right is sacred. It is not too late for us to pull ourselves together and win back this right from the Commission."@en1
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