Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-23-Speech-2-077"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Exposure of workers to risks arising from physical agents2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011023.5.2-077"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-23-Speech-2-0782
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bushill-matthews2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, in my two years in this Parliament I have never received such a barrage of letters of complaint as I have about this report. I am talking particularly about whole-body vibration aspects, rather than hand and arm vibration. These comments are not just from employers, large and small, in farming, quarrying, mining, engineering and construction businesses – to name but a few – who are rightly concerned about the very viability of their entire industries under these proposals. They are also from ordinary employees concerned about their jobs if the rapporteur's amendments go through. Recently published and well-respected scientific work from Germany, Italy and the UK, as well as the rapporteur's own country of Denmark, shows no direct quantifiable link between whole-body vibration and back pain. I note that Mr Hughes maintains otherwise; not for the first time his own government disagrees with him. The above comments from constituents have two things in common: their anger that Socialist MEPs should be proposing such amendments in the first place, and their sheer disbelief that such MEPs could be so out of touch with reality. Let me be clear. The above comments are nothing to do with health and safety, issues which all of us recognise as important. They are everything to do with the rapporteur jumping to conclusions that are not supported by specific scientific evidence. The UK government is strongly opposed to the rapporteur's proposed amendments which, it maintains, would damage industry and agriculture for no benefit. UK Conservative MEPs agree, and we urge the UK Labour MEPs, who supported this report so resolutely in committee, now to support the common position, and meanwhile to support our compromise, tabled jointly by a number of political groups. I urge you all to join us in voting for sound science and sound sense."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bushill-Matthews (PPE-DE )."1

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