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"Madam President, I want to begin by saying a big thank you to Mrs Roth-Behrendt for her skilful and very consistent work on the directive. I certainly also enjoyed working into the night with Dagmar. It looked very difficult at the beginning. There were a number of Member States and also parts of industry that did everything to block decent rules concerning animal experiments. Thanks to Mrs Roth-Behrendt’s and others’ stubbornness, however, acceptable results were in actual fact achieved in two areas.
The first of these was in relation to animal experiments. We are now to have bans imposed on animal experiments and on the marketing of new products developed by means of animal experiments. Where most experiments are concerned, the ban will apply in six years’ time; but, unfortunately, the bans on three areas, or methods, of experimentation will only apply in ten years’ time, and then with a risk of the deadline’s also being extended. It might of course be said that both deadlines are too far in the future. That is also what we have said here in Parliament but, as we know from the negotiations, there were some Member States that simply blocked the experiments concerned being halted more quickly. It is now crucial that the Commission be consistent in following up the issue. I am able fully to endorse Mr Davies’s observation. Compliance with the current directives has not been sufficiently well monitored, and this has inflicted quite unnecessary suffering upon millions of animals used in experiments. There has most definitely been an acceptance of laxity in developing alternative methods, and that laxity must cease with this directive.
The second major result concerned ourselves as consumers. First and foremost, we are obtaining a ban on the use of a range of carcinogenic substances and on the use of substances that impair our reproductive ability. We are to have special safety requirements in relation to children; allergy-producing ingredients are to be labelled; and details are to be provided of the shelf-life of individual products. I believe that, overall, there has been a breakthrough in relation to unnecessary animal experiments and that there has also been a breakthrough in terms of public health and consumer protection in the cosmetics area.
Overall, this is a constructive outcome, and I would once again call upon the Commission to be consistent in following up this matter. I also believe that it is necessary for ourselves in Parliament to monitor such follow-up from the sidelines."@en1
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