Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-11-Speech-2-070"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, I wish to congratulate Mr Nisticò on his excellent work and say that, throughout Europe, the issue in question is to resolve the extraordinarily difficult situation
involving blood.
The European public feels that the discrepancies between the Member States’ legislation provide no guarantees of safety given the increasing circulation and import of blood products, on the one hand; on the other, they feel equally unsafe due to the events that have taken place in various countries in recent years. What we are dealing with here, therefore, is not so much the issue of price, of whether or not donations of blood should be remunerated. It is rather a question of whether we can guarantee levels of safety and of not forgetting the importance of the issue of blood for Europe’s citizens.
Various leaks have taken place recently at the heart of this debate and I am sorry that the issue of whether or not donations of blood should be remunerated has been given centre stage. With regard to this issue, I would say that the rapporteur is right and that we should stick to the common position since, on the one hand, it does not ban remuneration, which is essential in some cases in order to overcome shortages, but, on the other, encourages voluntary donations and even allows some Member States to go further by defining more rigid rules that could even prevent the import of blood products that do not adhere to these rules. However, once again, Mr President, what is at stake is safety and finding a solution to the problem of blood shortages."@en1
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