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I wish to start by congratulating the rapporteur on his excellent work. The public hearings held in Brussels have greatly contributed to clarifying sensitive subjects. Furthermore, Mr Liese has managed the entire process in a supremely rigorous and competent way.
As we all know, this directive is intended to set quality and safety standards for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, storage, and distribution of human tissues and cells.
My votes have closely matched the outcome already reached in the specialist committee, all the more because the amendments tabled by the rapporteur were drafted with the cooperation of our group too. In this way we arrived at a text that calls in particular for the adoption of tissue and cell transplant programmes based on voluntary donations, which are unpaid and anonymous on the part both of the donor and the recipient. Furthermore, it prohibits research into human cloning for reproductive purposes and the creation of human embryos solely for the purpose of research or of extracting stem cells. In some fields, such as the use of foetal tissue, I preferred the text produced by the specialist committee – but since this was rejected in plenary, I broadly welcome the adoption of the amendment that I tabled as the second alternative. The fact that the vote on the total ban on the destructive research of embryos (Amendment No 86/3 by Mr Fleming), has ...
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