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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the compromise reached by the Council and Parliament after much deliberation represents progress for animal welfare, as it will mean a ban on animal testing in cosmetics – as long as there are alternative methods available, of course. Congratulations are in order for that. I am wholly in favour of it.
I am also extremely pleased about the transitional period of six years to allow alternatives to be found, as there are only three categories of tests that are particularly difficult to replace and the industry has until 2013 to develop alternative methods for these. After all, ladies and gentlemen, let us be honest, which of you would volunteer to be tested with new substances? The widespread criticism about this transitional period, which argues that permitting animal testing to continue is a loophole in the law, is therefore unjustified. As long as people do not volunteer for testing themselves, other ways of testing certain bulk products must be permitted. After all, these bulk products are also used in the pharmaceutical industry, and the standards we apply to medicines are naturally different from those we apply to lipstick. I therefore wholeheartedly endorse this compromise."@en1
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