Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-16-Speech-3-337"
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"Mr President, in just two years’ time we will be facing a series of important dates for the common agricultural policy: from the verification of Agenda 2000 to the review of the common organisations of the market for seed plants, sugar, milk, and at this point also olive oil. By chance, by a strange stroke of luck, we have the competent Commissioner here today. The financial resources and the aid that the producers expect will become a sort of financial bottleneck which must in no way affect the solidity of any of the above-mentioned dossiers.
Oil in particular should be safeguarded as a sector because it represents European agricultural values throughout the world. We must work so that quality and safety and also the multiple uses of the product can be the key to the future of Community olive oil production. To achieve this aim it is necessary, however, that in the period before these important dates arrive there should be a review, reappraisal and enhancement of the role of producer associations especially; in fact, the centralisation of the operators is essential for achieving consumer protection based on labelling and traceability. From this viewpoint, the introduction of a clear classification of oils can only result in greater access to the competitive advantages of guaranteed production. In addition, alongside the financial aspects of a sector like that of oil, the Community law on designation of origin must necessarily be revisited.
The European principle must in fact become that of identifying the origin of the oil with the place where the olives are produced and no longer with the place where they are crushed, as has debatably been the case until now. In this context the blending of olive oil with other vegetable oils, in the absence of labelling that will identify each component in the blend, damages the image of the producer, the consumer and the
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It would in fact be deplorable if we were to find ourselves facing not just the existing uncontrolled piracy of digital music but also unfair competition in foodstuffs, playing on false denominations and bogus labels. Adulteration must be repressed, especially in the area of foodstuffs, because what is at stake are the interests of consumer safety and the producers’ right to entrepreneurial freedom. The whole olive oil sector, supported by the political institution at whatever level, should assume the responsibility of carrying out the activities of management and market control through concentration and the marketing of the product, to the benefit of quality, certification, research, promotion and traceability.
I thank Mr Peres for the truly excellent results of his work. This evening I take the opportunity – and I shall repeat this in the House tomorrow – to say that we have a problem with the Italian translation: the translation of ‘
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’ (crude) is not acceptable in my country and so tomorrow I shall ask for the Italian version to use the term ‘
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