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"Mr President, although I am not from the same group as Mr Whitehead, I share his thoughts on Mrs Roth-Behrendt, and if she has to have an operation tomorrow we wish her a speedy recovery because in a way she is the driving force behind the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. In any event, she has only tabled two amendments, because the Commission accepted the majority of the amendments tabled at first reading. These two amendments, as has already been said by other Members, concern the additional guarantees that some Member States can stipulate in order for animals to enter, and also with the possibility of conducting tests on animals of less than 30 months.
However, as I come from a small region with small farms that have huge problems, and where there have been some, but very few, cases of BSE, I would like to highlight three issues that I think are fundamental. One of them features in Article 6 and refers to the need to train and educate staff working for the competent authorities, staff that work in laboratories, people who rear animals and those who sell them. In practice, I have seen that all of these people are faced with a problem that they do not understand and that they do not know how to deal with. This training programme is therefore essential, in my opinion, and should be implemented as soon as possible, because it would be a method of prevention.
With respect to the banning of feed containing animal proteins, as established in Article 9, my opinion is that this ban should now be total. Cows should eat grass and this is the best way of preventing what is occurring now. There should also be immediate 100% compensation for the animals slaughtered on these farms. I have seen how some of the farmers in the region where I live, who had 25 or 30 cows, have very little money left on which to live. If all the animals are slaughtered they are left without their livelihood. It is therefore essential that the compensation that they have not yet received be paid out immediately.
I think, Mr President – and I will finish here because my time has run out – that if we wish to regain credibility among consumers, measures like these and others must be implemented immediately and clearly. People need to see that measures are being taken in Europe, otherwise it will be impossible to regain that credibility."@en1
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