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"A number of papers have been circulated to Members before this particular debate, and I would just like to highlight one from the rapporteur where he says that the only beneficiaries of the entry into force of the text proposed by the Council will be the chocolate multinationals. Whilst I respect the commitment of the rapporteur to his cause, I suggest to the House that is nonsense. This is not just a matter for big business: it is of great concern to little consumers, millions of them throughout the EU who wish for and deserve the right to choose, without having pejorative labelling applied to the product.
Mr Lannoye says that he has gone back to retable some of the original amendments. I suggest to the House that this is not a time to go back – this is a time to move on, to move forward. This is a single market issue; this House should not be standing in the way of the completion of the single market but should be actively promoting it.
If I could share one brief historical fact with the House concerning my own country: the first mention of solid chocolate being sold in the UK was in 1657 when a Frenchman opened a shop in London. So if it was legal in 1657 for a Frenchman to sell his chocolate in London, can I suggest to the House that, some 350 years later, it should at long last be legal for an Englishman, or indeed any other EU national, to sell his chocolate throughout the EU including the country of the rapporteur."@en1
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