Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-02-Speech-2-157"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Food and feed safety2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020702.7.2-157"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-02-Speech-2-1582
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Thomas-mauro2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Mouvement pour la France (2000-11-23--2003-06-16)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2003-03-10)3 member; NA (2001-01-31--2003-03-10)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2003-03-10)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, when we vote on the Scheele and Trakatellis reports on genetically modified products, we have a duty to contribute to defining a credible safety strategy for genetically modified food in order to restore the power of political discourse in this area. As far as the scope of the proposed legislation is concerned, we believe that labelling must be applied to GMOs and their products in food and feed, and that this must be based on the full traceability of GMOs, without being limited to the detectability criteria of genetically modified DNA, so as to comply fully with the precautionary principle. We reject, on the other hand, the amendments that seek to promote ‘non GMO’ or ‘GM free’ labelling since this measure would impose additional manufacturing costs on the ‘GM free’ sector. As for unauthorised GMOs in the European Union, we recommend ‘zero’ tolerance. It would be contradictory to strengthen the GMO authorisation procedure, on the one hand, and to agree to the presence of unauthorised GMOs in foodstuffs on the other. In relation to the labelling exemption threshold for adventitious release of GMOs authorised in Europe, we support the 0.5% threshold. We are not losing sight of the fact, however, that since the identification of GM products is problematic, the very existence of a threshold poses a problem. This type of ambiguity, which is exclusive to the debate on GMOs, must be resolved urgently within our societies, whose citizens are, increasingly, making up their own minds in the light of fears and threats, to the point where these have now become more influential than the notion of risk itself."@en1
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