Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-10-21-Speech-2-290"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-10-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sweeteners for use in foodstuffs2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031021.10.2-290"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-10-21-Speech-2-2912
lpv:speaker	lp:Phillip Whitehead2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am delighted that this debate has taken the form it has. I think that shows that in this debate at least, sweeteners can be a ' ' as well! The rapporteur has steered this debate impeccably through the difficulties that we often encounter with these comparatively small arguments. The problem very often is that they turn into the legislative equivalent of a Venus Flytrap. You hover around them and suddenly you are sucked in and find enormous difficulties. I believe that the three amendments the Commission has accepted are the right ones. I think it is completely satisfactory for us that we have a period of review, that we have avoided the problems that we suspected in comitology and that, as Mrs Oomen-Ruijten has said, we have been able to support and not needlessly challenge the opinion of the scientific committees. That is why I think Mr Lannoye's amendment was an amendment too far in that direction. It is not our job always to say, after there has been scientific appraisal, that is not good enough, and there should be further appraisal immediately. If you do that you devalue the work of the scientific committees, introduce an atmosphere of suspicion and end up with an unsatisfactory proposal. So I am delighted that we have moved in this direction. I am delighted also that we have reduced the level of cyclamates that can be used because of all our concerns about the exploitation of children and the way they now consume a variety of sweetened products. Finally I should say to the Commission in particular that if we could, in all circumstances, treat these small but important debates seriously but without the kind of hysteria that we sometimes get on either side, this Parliament would be a happier and a wiser place."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Whitehead (PSE )."1 "douceur"1

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