Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-11-Speech-2-046"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-06-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cosmetic products2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020611.4.2-046"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-11-Speech-2-0472
lpv:speaker	lp:John Bowis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, this is a debate which is bedevilled with hypocrisy. We see products on sale claiming to be free from animal testing when the manufacturers know perfectly well that the products may not have been tested on animals, but that the ingredients were. We see countries like my own, claiming to have banned animal testing, when all they have done is export the problem to countries where animals are even less respected. What we need and what this report brings us towards is a ban on the marketing of products tested on animals. Of course, what we need is to ensure that safety is our key criterion. Human health must not be put at risk by what we are doing. We must bear in mind the range of products that we are talking about – it is not just the cosmetics that we put on our faces; it is also the toothpastes, the sunscreens, the baby products, the lens cleansers and so on. Our aim must be a realistic timetable to phase out products which have been tested on animals by setting a deadline for each of those tests. We have to reconcile the interests of human health and those of animal welfare, and it can be done. Our amendments would ban with immediate effect those tests for which alternatives have been validated. It would set a deadline for each of the others, according to the stage reached in the process of validating an alternative, up to a maximum of five years. It would acknowledge that for the three tests for which there are as yet no alternatives there would be a maximum of ten years in which to find alternatives, after which those tests would stop too. We are tired of waiting on this issue. We have waited five years; we have waited 1,825 days since this measure should have been brought in. In that time, we have seen 190,000 animals suffer and be destroyed. We want to bring that to an end. We need safe cosmetic products. We need human health to be ensured and we need animal testing to be stopped. It is time to bring this issue to a conclusion."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-05-30--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bowis (PPE-DE )."1

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