Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-143"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Deliberate release of GMOs into the environment2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010213.7.2-143"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-13-Speech-2-1442
lpv:speaker	lp:Benedetto Della Vedova2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, rapporteur, on behalf of the radical Members of the Bonino List, I would like to express my full support for the directive on the deliberate release into the environment of GMOs. It has taken three years – too many – from when Commissioner Santer, urged by Emma Bonino and Ritt Bjerregaard, the then Commissioners for Consumer Policy and the Environment, presented the proposal to amend the old Directive 90/220/EEC, a proposal which has resulted in the text we are debating today and upon which we are going to vote tomorrow. We are going to vote in favour of the motion, for we feel that this proposal for a directive guarantees a rigorous legal framework for GMO authorisation, protecting consumers, economic operators and research scientists. The proposal includes the major elements of innovation, environmental risk assessment and risk monitoring. The new legislation also contains the precautionary principle, the rigid, ideological application of which, all too often proposed to us, would have the opposite effect to that desired, of paralysing not only research and innovation in the agri-foods sector but even commonly accepted aspects of our way of life, as the Italian Minister for Health, Umberto Veronesi, who is first and foremost a scientist, has pointed out in the last few days. Improvements have been made in the areas of labelling and traceability, and a public information mechanism has been provided for. On a more general note, it is my opinion that this directive represents a step forward in renouncing a prohibitionist approach to scientific progress."@en1

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