Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-10-Speech-1-077"
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"en.20011210.4.1-077"2
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"Let me start by saying that I am all for food and animal feed safety, but I cannot understand why the European Union believes that it is necessary to establish the European Food Safety Authority. I believe I am right in saying that almost all major diseases, except possibly BSE, come from countries outside the European Union. Therefore the World Health Organisation, which is already in existence and is doing just such work, should be adequate for this purpose and can protect all of our interests.
This organisation serves 27 of the countries of Europe including the countries of the European Union. It strikes me that the European Union is creating a further quango which, like most authorities the EU sets up, will be expensive to run and turn out to be a white elephant. If such a need did exist, surely it should be the work of each national government to look at the appropriate problems. These would be pertinent to the conditions of that country and they can act accordingly."@en1
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