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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-06-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human blood and blood components2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020611.5.2-060"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-11-Speech-2-0612
lpv:speaker	lp:John Bowis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am sorry that my giving way to Mrs Oomen-Ruijten seems to have caused her some anguish but I do not think she is any need of any blood products. This is a very welcome report and I congratulate our rapporteur. The safety of blood, as we all know, is paramount. Some of our Member States have had horror stories to remind them of that. But the supply of blood is also paramount for those whose lives depend on it. Our preference is for unremunerated donation – that is the British practice and that is what we want to see – but, in practice, Europe imports nearly 50% of its plasma and plasma products. I am not talking about the standard blood transfusion service that comes around to your church hall and you pop in for half an hour, have a cup of tea, and go back to work. I am talking about plasma donation, where you have to travel some distance to fixed machinery and it takes half a day. We have to import some of those products and a lot of them come from the United States, where many of the products are remunerated. Research shows that remunerated blood is perfectly safe in itself. The key, of course, is the screening of blood products wherever they come from. The hyper-immune plasma products are nearly all imported into the European Union and 2,166,367 people in the European Union depend on them: some 400 thousand in Britain, 400 thousand in France, 100 thousand in the Netherlands, 40 thousand in Finland and so on. These are people with haemophilia, primary immune deficiency, albumen tetanus needs, acquired deficiencies, auto-immune diseases and Rhesus negative pregnant women. Without supplies, their health and their lives can be at risk. Of course we must encourage unremunerated donation. That is our custom and practice but in a world of BSE and CJD, we cannot be purists. Otherwise we are putting the lives of our fellow citizens at risk."@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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