Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-13-Speech-4-049"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Consumer Policy Strategy 2002-20062
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030313.1.4-049"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-13-Speech-4-0502
lpv:speaker	lp:Jorge Moreira Da Silva2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2003-03-10--2003-10-05)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2003-10-05)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2003-10-05)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (1999-07-20--2003-10-05)3 substitute; ECON (2002-01-17--2003-10-05)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I wish first of all to congratulate the three rapporteurs on their excellent work and say that enormous progress has been made in recent years at European level in the field of consumer protection, with the emphasis, of course, on food safety. It is true that too many food scandals had to occur for this to happen, but even so, we have reasons to be proud of the EU’s legislative work in this field. Now that we are beginning to draw up solutions for resolving other consumer protection issues, many people have expressed doubts as to the need to find common solutions in the EU. It should be recalled that the success of the European Union’s food safety policy both in protecting the consumer and in balancing the internal market, has not been achieved only through more restrictive rules being established for food for human and animal food consumption. This success is also the result of these rules being communitarised. Consequently, given the enormous fragmentation and even incompatibility of trade and consumer protection rules in the Member States, which simply distort competition, bring down quality standards and undermine consumer confidence, I am in favour of all consumer protection legislation being harmonised to the highest possible degree. With a view to this effort to harmonise, I believe that the European Union must start by defining a framework directive on commercial practices that clearly defines business operators’ responsibilities to consumers. I believe, however, that there are other areas in which the European Union and the Commission must pursue their work, in particular on legislation to protect human health against the effects of electromagnetic fields, especially those created by mobile phones. The fact that the largest mobile phone companies are European should not prevent us from doing so."@en1

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