Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-363"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Precautionary principle2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.15.3-363"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-3642
lpv:speaker	lp:Laura González Álvarez2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2003-07-07)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Izquierda Unida (1999-07-20--2003-07-07)3,3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as the rapporteur points out very effectively, the cautionary or precautionary principle – even though the rapporteur differentiates between the two – is laid down in several international agreements, ranging from Rio 1992, to the protection of the North Sea and, more recently, in the Montreal Biosecurity Protocol. As other speakers have said, it is crucial that this principle should be applied properly and that there are legal guarantees for the parties involved, but I would like to take up three ideas that are in Mrs Patrie’s report and in some of the amendments and which seem to me to be perhaps the most important ideas in the report. Firstly, that there is no minimum threshold of risk below which the precautionary principle must not be applied and, consequently, even in cases where there is little risk, it would have to be used. Secondly, that transparency and consumer information are very important and necessary to the whole process of assessment and risk management. And lastly, that public health and the environment must be given priority over all other considerations, particularly financial considerations. If things had been done in this way, Mr President, I do not believe that we would now be lamenting the disease suffered by mad cows, or that we would be lamenting certain other examples of food contamination whose future effects are still unknown. There is currently a great degree of sensitivity and concern over the use in foods of genetically modified products. Another example is the great sensitivity over the information, whether it has a scientific basis or not, about the possible effects of mobile phones, electromagnetic waves and also masts transmitting electromagnetic waves. Mr President, I believe that this is a very important principle if it is used properly and whenever it is necessary."@en1

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