Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-04-Speech-2-278"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Safety and air transport2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010904.11.2-278"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-04-Speech-2-2792
lpv:speaker	lp:Phillip Whitehead2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I apologise to Mr Schmitt and to Mr Collins for the fact that I was delayed elsewhere and did not hear their introductory remarks. The opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, of which I was the draftsman, was unanimously carried and we are delighted to see that many of our recommendations have been endorsed by the two rapporteurs. We have to move on from the old excuses, the legal challenges mounted by IATA and the opposition to even modest voluntary agreements which we still hear on some sides. This is essentially a matter of the safety, as well as of the convenience, of the consumer. For that reason we particularly welcome the adoption of amendments on consumer health and safety in the Schmitt report's emphasis on the provision of information on health and safety requirements for airline passengers and the Collins report's adoption of the proposal that there should be an evaluation of health risk and research into matters like deep-vein thrombosis. The fact is that passengers today suffer not merely from being dumped from airlines, from the problem of lost baggage, but from other things which are often not the fault of the airlines themselves. They principally suffer from a lack of information. If the new agency does one thing, like the food standards agency which we are about to set up, it must be open, it must be transparent. We need to see how its investigations work. We need to see how its personnel are selected. It must be done on the basis of merit and without any links to the industry. All of those are possible if we adopt these two reports. I hope the House will give an emphatic welcome in the vote tomorrow."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-11-11--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2000-09-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Whitehead (PSE ),"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy."1

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