Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-20-Speech-3-307"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-11-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Additives in animal nutrition2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021120.9.3-307"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-11-20-Speech-3-3082
lpv:speaker	lp:Avril Doyle2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I should like to thank Mrs Keppelhoff-Wiechert for her excellent work in this area. This proposal is one of the measures provided for in the Commission's White Paper on Food Safety. I welcome it and largely agree with the assessment and authorisation procedures it proposes. The current directive has been amended five times since 1970 and has never been consolidated. It is a complex and very un-user-friendly piece of legislation regulation at the moment. In the current climate, it is right that we should do what we are proposing now. We are amending or reviewing this directive in parallel with the veterinary medicines directive and they are related. However, I would caution against moving too quickly from a food additive definition to a veterinary medicine definition until alternatives have been put in place and we are ready to cope with them. I, like others, have concerns about proper controls on third-country imports. There is one way to ensure peace of mind, not only for our farmers and poultry producers but also for consumers, and that is to increase the resources of the Food and Veterinary Office so that it can keep the situation under surveillance. To go to Taiwan, Hong Kong or South America once every five years is not sufficient and nobody is fooled by this any longer. This issue has come up under the Temporary Committee on Foot-and-Mouth Disease review. It is a major issue, along with exotic diseases and imports of diseases and problems. If we want to ensure that the regulations are there to create a level playing field within the EU, we have to see to it that our inspectors have sufficient resources to be able to meet our expectations. I would like the Commissioner to address that particular point. There is much I welcome in this report and I would like to thank the rapporteur and the Commissioner again. Let us hasten slowly and be sure we have replacements, rather than moving at a pace which will drive people into veterinary medicines, away from their current practices."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (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_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 unknown; Fine Gael Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Doyle (PPE-DE )."1

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