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"Mr President, I would like to join my colleagues in giving a warm welcome to Professor MacCormick’s very realistic report. In considering the whole issue of product liability we have to say that the current directive appears to have functioned well. There is not a great deal of evidence that consumers are at the moment being seriously disadvantaged. I would argue quite strongly that we have achieved a very fair and reasonable balance of interests.
I want to pick up the point made by my colleague Mr Wuermeling that we must take particular care about development risks in the environment within which we now find ourselves. It was a crucial issue at the Lisbon Summit and new product innovation is one of the key competitive aspects of European business. If our regulations on product liability stifle competitiveness and innovation, I suggest that consumers will be at a major disadvantage as well. Consumers will be the ones to lose out, if a flow of competitive and innovative products is stifled. So let me echo Mr MacCormick: there is a need for much more clearly-based factual evidence before we make changes to this legislation."@en1
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