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"Madam President, in response to the many food crises, such as chicken dioxin, salmonella, listeria, foot and mouth disease and BSE, several Member States have set up facilities to monitor food safety.
At the beginning of 2002, Europe will create its own food safety authority. This new body aims, on the one hand, to meet citizens’ expectations by placing food safety at the top of their list of priorities, on a par with unemployment, and, on the other hand, to provide the European Union with a body that is able to defend and promote the European agricultural model on the international stage.
Agricultural products are now an integral part of the World Trade Organisation negotiating round. Within the WTO, the Cairns group is opposed to an approach to agriculture that takes into account food safety.
Nevertheless, in order to be successful, the authority will have to resolve the following problems. On the one hand, the composition of the Management Board, since, in order to involve all players from all parts of the food chain, the body will have to ensure a place on the board for representatives of the agricultural world in the same way as consumers, the food industry and distributors.
That is why we remain in favour of a Management Board composed of 16 members, and not of 12 as proposed in the report.
Lastly, as regards the definition of functions, who will be responsible for the alert system, for management and for monitoring? This means bringing up the thorny issue of revamping the Rapid Alert System. The role of the French Agency is limited to risk assessment, whilst the Minister for Agriculture is responsible for risk management. The European Agency will have to restrict itself to a monitoring role.
My final point relates to the potential conflicts with the national agencies. France, Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium and Greece have their own national agencies. Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain are about to create their own. The European Agency will have to fulfil a coordination function, whilst respecting the independence of the national agencies."@en1
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