Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-23-Speech-1-103"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Animal by-products not intended for human consumption2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020923.8.1-103"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-23-Speech-1-1042
lpv:speaker	lp:Danielle Auroi2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-02-07--2002-10-23)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to thank Mrs Paulsen for having conducted this conciliation – which was not easy – with such panache, and for thus enabling us to reach a good compromise today. As Commissioner Vitorino said, the challenge is still how to protect ourselves against BSE. It is as if we have almost forgotten that this was the main problem and that this is what was behind all the directives that we have been adopting recently in the field of food safety. We are prohibiting the recycling of animal carcasses and condemned animal by-products into the food chain, we are banning animal ‘cannibalism’, this is a positive step. Food traceability has been improved. Lastly, we are preventing cross-contamination. This is all well and good but there is, unfortunately, a down side, because although we have certainly made progress in eliminating food waste, I think that the obligation imposed on Member States is being partly deferred. A transitional period has been proposed which, as previous speakers have said, is too long. Two years was certainly long enough for us to resolve these problems. For example, oils can produce biomass for biofuels etc. Yet, some States will be virtuous and take the necessary measures as soon as possible, whilst others will wait until the very last minute, until 2006, by using the comitology procedure. This is a very unpleasant reminder of what happened at the peak of the BSE crisis, when some States claimed not to have any cases of mad cow disease because they were not doing any tests. When they started to carry out the tests, they detected cases of mad cow disease. Yet, these same States today are not, in my view, being particularly reasonable. We must speed up the process."@en1

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