Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-04-Speech-3-165"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection of animals used for experiments2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021204.10.3-165"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-04-Speech-3-1662
lpv:speaker	lp:Raffaele Costa2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Forza Italia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, a great deal has been said this evening on this subject. Each speaker has explained his position calmly and resolutely, and, indeed, I do not even want to use all the time available to me for fear of repeating what has already been said. Directive 86/609 laid down provisions which reflected the – as yet quite limited – understanding of that time. Over 15 years have passed since that directive, during which time I would say it has had hardly any effect at all, for every day we receive news not of progressive alignment with the directive but of ill-treatment of animals and unlawful behaviour. The States have to a large degree failed to comply with the directive; the whole of society – human society as well as, of course, the animal kingdom – has not felt protected. The report contains a number of very specific provisions on the behaviour of what are, indeed, major countries – Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom – which have behaved in different ways but, in any case, in such a manner as to justify the assertion that almost all the States have failed to comply with the directive for a long time. This failure to comply has taken different forms but it is still failure to comply. Few countries in the European Union have escaped criticism, and that may well be because they were not yet part of the European Union at the time in question and have therefore not been assessed. I believe that there must be an undertaking in this regard. The report’s proposals are certainly sound, the recommendations made by the Commissioner – although I feel she is a little overoptimistic – are certainly sound, but the important thing is for the legislation to be implemented, and so we need inspectors, we need monitoring, we need all possible endeavours to ensure that the directive is respected, even before we start to revise it."@en1

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