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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	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030701.5.2-124"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-07-01-Speech-2-1252
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the proposals in the Scheele report, together with the Trakatellis report, mean that consumers do not have to use GMOs. If the amendments of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy are approved, EU legislation will be the strictest in the world. Despite this, the situation is still far from ideal, because it is still possible for traditionally or organically grown plants, and animals, to be adventitiously contaminated by GMO materials. We are still waiting for effective criteria for co-existence in the field and also for the environmental liability system that the Commission promised us during the negotiations about Directive 2001/18/EC two years ago. Until such time as these criteria have begun to take adequate effect, the ban should not be lifted. We must make it clear that European consumers are entitled to decide for themselves whether they want to buy GMOs or not. For the protection of this right, we should not have to rely on the World Trade Organisation or the United States administration. This is exclusively the responsibility of Europe’s own parliamentarians, both here and in the national parliaments. If we are to move ahead, we have to support all the amendments tabled by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. I regret that the Commission has assumed a rather negative position towards a number of these amendments."@en1

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