Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-05-Speech-4-009"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-04-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Animal feedingstuffs/Vegetable proteins2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010405.2.4-009"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-05-Speech-4-0102
lpv:speaker	lp:Marit Paulsen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the general debate I often hear that it was who fed their cows other, dead cows. It was unfortunate that they did that but, at that time and with the system we have in place, farmers were in no position to know exactly what they were giving their animals. Now that we are discussing the food and feedingstuffs chain, we must ensure that the whole chain, from A to Z, is imbued with a number of concepts – transparency, information and public access to documents. We have inherited a chain with many links and with large gaps between each link and the next. That also applies to feedingstuffs. Whether their farms be large or small, ordinary farmers buying feedingstuffs cannot at present be reasonably expected to know what these contain. They have no laboratories available to them and, given the way feedingstuffs look nowadays, they can glean no information about the content from either the appearance, smell or taste. Farmers therefore need significantly more transparency and significantly more precise information. I think that this proposal is too complicated and that, in the long term, we ought to be able to find common principles for food and feedingstuffs which are somewhat simpler and somewhat more comprehensible both to the farmer and the final consumer of the food, for example a declaration of contents in descending order of volume and precise information upon request. As the situation at present stands and in view of the fact that we are now at the of this food safety process, the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party will nonetheless be voting in favour of this report."@en1
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