Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-05-Speech-4-043"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I must be lavish with my praise of Mr Schnellhardt, rapporteur for this and the two previous reports, for the soundly thought-through piece of work that he has done and that we in the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party support almost 100%. There are certain small details about which we do not agree, but these are so insignificant that I do not need to list them. I think you have done some incredibly constructive work on all three of these reports, which are technically difficult and which are incredibly important for everyone in Europe. The fact is that we normally eat at least three times a day.
Scandals crop up again and again. As Mrs Corbey said, adding things to meat is the big thing right now. Water and artificial proteins are injected, as if meat were not protein in itself. In the light of this, there is only one route to go down, and that is one of total openness in our systems. When we come across fraud and when labelling and declarations of content are not in accordance with the contents of the package, we must make the public, that is to say the consumers, aware of the fact. There must be a system of naming and shaming for those businesses that are careless. In financial terms, the EU is at present in danger of benefiting the ‘bad guys’ and penalising the ‘good guys’, and we must be extremely careful not to do this. I shall appeal once more for complete transparency. For example, our ordinary food law is extremely transparent. Let us not therefore be deflected in our course. There is a lot to be said for the view that the best inspector is the person who is to buy and eat the product.
Clear and focused legislation is needed, because we all know that the real inspections take place on the ground, locally and regionally. Whatever titles and job descriptions the inspectors may have, they need to be backed by very clear and robust legislation that leaves no one in any doubt as to their authority and rights.
When it comes to small businesses, I must ask that we turn some of our attention to my own report, which will be appearing shortly and which deals with the costs of the inspections. It is not right to exempt small traditional businesses from the rules governing hygiene. They must, however, be exempted from unduly high costs."@en1
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