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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cocoa and chocolate products2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000314.4.2-067"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-14-Speech-2-0682
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2000-03-07--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in many ways, I think that we are about to end up with a good compromise on the directive relating to cocoa and chocolate products, thanks especially to Mr Paul Lannoye’s efforts. I am very much in favour of clear labelling. It means proper information for consumers and, because a number of countries have so far only been familiar with chocolate in which cocoa butter is used as vegetable fat, it may be relevant for consumers in these countries to learn that another vegetable fat has been used. On the other hand, I do not think that it can, or ought to be, implied that chocolate in which, for example, shea nuts are used as vegetable fat is necessarily of poorer quality than chocolate in which the vegetable fat used is cocoa butter. There are absolutely no objective criteria for saying that, and the Council is quite rightly leaving it to consumers to judge the quality. We must not forget that shea nuts are just as essential to the countries which export them as cocoa is to the cocoa-exporting countries. Any future investigation of the effects of the present directive upon developing countries’ exports ought therefore also to include both cocoa and shea nuts. What, for me, is most important of all is that there must be no enzymatic or genetic modifications to the vegetable fat in chocolate. A ban of this kind is the only means through which we can give developing countries a guarantee that they can go on at all exporting the goods which they produce by natural means."@en1

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