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"en.20021217.1.2-015"2
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"Mr President, whether it is a jumbo jet crash in an isolated Scottish village, a tanker wreck on an ecologically sensitive coastline, a terrorist bombing or a major civil disorder, the effectiveness of a response depends almost entirely on advance planning.
The same applies to a major epidemic of a commercially important animal disease such as foot and mouth. In this context, however, the Commission had assumed statutory responsibility for dictating the nature of planning undertaken by Member States – the so-called contingency planning. It should also have monitored its adequacy.
Therefore, notwithstanding the obvious and manifest failing of the British authorities in this respect, clearly the Commission's performance was disastrous. Rightly, the temporary committee had identified this lamentable lack of diligence on the part of the Commission. Yet what is missing from this report is any indication of why the Commission failed so manifestly in its duty. I rather regret therefore that the temporary committee has chosen to draw attention to, and I quote, ‘the high quality of the Commission's work in controlling the crisis... stressed by the national veterinary authorities of Member States concerned’.
I would suggest therefore that, before leaping into the usual role of telling everyone else what is going wrong, the Commission this time spends its time examining why, when the chips were down, it performed so badly."@en1
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