Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-06-Speech-4-108"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-09-06"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20010906.5.4-108"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Françoise Grossetête2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2001-01-17--2001-11-29)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (1999-09-30--2002-03-07)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Démocratie libérale (1999-07-20--2002-11-17)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". I voted in favour of this report. The initiatives advocated by this report will, I believe and hope, enable us to prevent the disasters that we have experienced, particularly in France with the case of contaminated blood. We cannot keep this tragic outcome, which is so imprinted on our minds, out of our discussion. It is therefore up to us, at European level, to establish high standards for blood quality and the safety of collection, to be exacting about storage conditions and traceability and to impose strict testing rules. Blood is not like other commodities. It is not a commercial commodity and nothing should make us depart from this idea. I remain firmly opposed to any commercial use of human blood and I am in favour of the principal of voluntary and unpaid donation. For ethical reasons, first of all: our Parliament, and in particular its Committee on genetics, makes many references to ethics. Do ethics push us towards establishing payment for blood donation? Should the relationship between doctor and donor be based on trust or solely on a financial relationship? With regard to ethics, we adopted a Charter of Fundamental Rights in which it is clearly stipulated that it is forbidden to use the human body as a source of profit. Coherence must be a part of our political commitment. Also, for scientific reasons: studies have shown that the safety of supply appears to be better guaranteed through the practice of unpaid donation, that the blood collected in this way is less likely to transmit infectious diseases. In a directive whose aim is the quality and safety of blood, this scientific observation cannot be left out of our discussion. Finally, for cultural reasons: in France – and the support of the various associations that have contacted me shows me this – we cannot accept the idea of payment for blood donation, precisely for the reasons that I have already given. ("@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Speech cut short pursuant to Rule 137 of the Rules of Procedure)"1

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