Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-25-Speech-3-056"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Food safety2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.2.3-056"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-0572
lpv:speaker	lp:Ria Oomen-ruijten2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-09-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-11-04--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to extend my genuine congratulations to Mr Bowis on his sound report on the White Paper for food safety. It is a very loaded topic which, after the European food crisis, has led to heated debates, and Mr Bowis managed very well to incorporate this debate in his report. In the Netherlands, the debate has focused on a European Food Safety Agency, which could be seen as Europe’s answer to the American FDA. In fact, that is how it was launched by the President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, when he took up office. The White Paper which is now before us and the Bowis report both take an agency as their only starting point, an agency attended by an extensive package of tasks in the form of accompanying legislative measures designed to restore confidence. Upon careful examination of the White Paper in the Member States and here in Parliament, it will then be given legislative status in the form of a new draft directive. The tasks will then involve independent scientific research, advice, independent inspections and a rapid alert system, but definitely coordination too, in order to restore confidence. I have concerns regarding those independent inspections. Why? In my view, there should be better guarantees for coordination with Dublin, and it should also be possible to carry out inspections in the Member States without prior permission. Amendments have been tabled to that effect. Legislation, standards and laying down rules remain within the remit of those institutions authorised for those purposes in Europe. Those are the Commission, as initiator, and the Council and Parliament as legislator. That does not take away the fact that I am left with one huge wish. I would have liked so very much to have drawn a comparison with the EMEA, and I also wanted to include notification and product approval as part of an agency’s remit. I hope that this will be given due consideration in the new proposal."@en1

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