Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-15-Speech-4-038"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-03-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Biotechnology industry2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010315.4.4-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-15-Speech-4-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (2000-05-03--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, it is the custom here to praise and thank the rapporteur. I will say this: Mr Purvis is right about one thing. Biotechnological applications will develop rapidly in the next few years. But we do not need everything that industry would like to see for that to happen, such as patenting genes that already exist in nature, the free trade in manipulated genes, tax concessions for stock options for companies and their directors, the liberalisation of product labelling, subjective information, and the handling of biotechnology as an exclusively industrial operation, for which the EU’s Directorate-General for Enterprise in the has responsibility. Mr Purvis’s report contains many views that point in this direction, and our group cannot, therefore accept it. We wish to see biotechnology as an opportunity that will open up new dimensions in science. The manipulation of nature must be approached in a more careful way than that which Mr Purvis is proposing. We have to set aside time to examine all the effects of unborn - and possibly unheard-of in nature - species and varieties on people and the rest of nature. We support the development of biotechnology and research in the field must not, for example, be allowed to be trampled on by information technology. The IT stock market bubble has now burst. We do not want biotechnology to become another such bubble, built of false expectations and empty promises. As this is a matter of basics, issues relating to the genotypes of people and the rest of nature, politicians must bear the responsibility, because industry will not. Industry only maximises the value of shares."@en1

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