Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-01-Speech-4-032"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Progress of EU and Member State measures to combat BSE2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010201.3.4-032"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-01-Speech-4-0332
lpv:speaker	lp:Phillip Whitehead2
lpv:spoken text	"Commissioner, you have the melancholy satisfaction of being proved right and that never makes one popular or even happy. The very people and the very Member States who were shrugging off your warnings two years ago, who were denying you a qualified majority, as you said just a few months ago, are now clamouring for compensation and support as the beef market collapses and we face the prospect of millions of animals in store, unsellable, undisposable of over the next two years. In the United Kingdom we see this with some sympathy. People will say to me: Well, yes, you were first. We were first in the whole cycle from complacency to despair and back again. And if today the beef market is sound in Britain and beef consumption is rising, it is only because people have seen how draconian the measures need to be. Every question I now want to ask the Commission comes from that experience. Firstly, the extent of BSE. What are the tests showing? What do the Member States themselves say? We see reports that some countries which claimed a year ago to be BSE-free, now anticipate up 500 cases in the course of the next year. If Europe has fallen into line with the principle of culling animals over 30 months, is that in itself enough? What do the tests and the research findings say about the incidence of the disease in animals younger than 30 months. Thirdly, what capacity do the Member States have for destroying the materials that are now being removed? Which Member States have the incineration capacity? Are some still saying that they will put this material into landfill? These are all serious questions, which we know you will try to answer. We think you should go further and I would just like to echo what my friend Mr Garot said which is that Europe most of all owes you its solidarity."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-11-11--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2000-09-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Whitehead (PSE )."1

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