Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-01-Speech-2-110"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-07-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Genetically modified organisms2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030701.5.2-110"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-07-01-Speech-2-1112
lpv:speaker	lp:Françoise Grossetête2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2002-08-29--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2002-11-18--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Mr Byrne reminded us just now about the fact that we are meeting today after two years of emotional and controversial work on this important issue of GMOs, an issue on which Parliament needs to decide without delay. We should show that we are rational, consistent and coordinated on what represents, in spite of everything, considerable progress. However, our debates here today show that opinion remains very divided. While ensuring the proper functioning of the internal market, we should assist our farmers in making their choices and, above all, we should ensure a high level of protection for the consumer. Even more importantly, we must convince the consumer that our decisions are well-founded. This means that we shall have to adopt strict rules governing authorisation and control procedures – which means that the scientific criteria for authorisation must be harmonised at European level – and there must be total traceability of products in order to guarantee the safety of animal feeds and foods for human consumption. It also means communication without ideology. Consumers are often worried because they do not have accurate information. The need for credible information for the public at large is consequently even more important. Labelling must be clear and legible, so as to allow consumers to be free to make the right choices. Consumers must be able to be certain that all the GMOs that are present in the products that they buy will have been strictly evaluated from the point of view of safety. They will then be able to choose to buy the products that they want. These texts propose lifting the moratorium. As soon as all the safety and traceability guarantees exist, the lifting of the moratorium must follow. If we do not lift it, we run the risk of holding back research in Europe yet again, and of causing our best research scientists to leave and go to the United States or Asia."@en1

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