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"Madam President, I think there is cause for saying a big thank-you to Mrs Scheele for the huge efforts she has made in order to obtain a package and arrive at a compromise. It has, I know, in large part been an uphill struggle, with a Council and a large number of Members of this Parliament not having been interested in what might be regarded as the ideal legislation.
There are still three problems with the outcome, which lead me to think that it cannot be characterised as ideal. Firstly, I think that the limit value for labelling in the case of adventitious pollution by GMOs is still too high and, secondly, we are coming, over a period, also to accept adventitious pollution by non-authorised and unlabelled GMOs. The third point to which I would draw attention and which I still think is a defect is that we have not obtained the best rules concerning the co-existence of GMOs and other crops. There will now most certainly be many instances of GMO pollution, with lengthy compensation cases in their wake. If we are not very careful, we are in danger of actually destroying the basis of ecological production and of general agricultural production throughout Europe. In spite of these defects, we are in the position of not having any choice, and I too shall therefore support the outcome with which we have been presented, including Mrs Scheele’s report. The alternative would be far more frightening, namely that of not obtaining any rules at all.
I believe we are obtaining some sensible rules on traceability. In that connection, I hope that Parliament will decide that data concerning transactions involving these products must be kept for ten years, and I also think it important that the results of inspections and controls carried out by the Member States should be kept in a central register so that the best possible data is always available. Only time and the first cases of matters going wrong can reveal whether the rules on traceability have been secure enough.
It is quite crucial for me that the
moratorium should only be lifted when the system for developing and assigning unambiguous identifications of GMOs has been fully implemented, that is to say when the rules are in place and there is full traceability from day one. In that connection, I should like to thank Mrs Wallström for the assurances she gave in her speech.
I hope that European consumers who are as critical and aware as the majority of them appear to be will demand the necessary rules on co-existence from their governments, leading to action being taken nationally and the correct rules on co-existence put in place. I also hope, moreover, that this large group of critical consumers will exert a natural restraint upon the demand for these artificially modified foods which consumers have not of course asked for but which chemicals groups and certain European governments definitely want us also to consume."@en1
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