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Mr President, this report was adopted unanimously in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Its aim is to improve traceability in the event of an outbreak of disease, such as the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
The committee believes that batch control systems should be allowed as well as the individual control system proposed by the Commission. This is the main point of difference with the Commission. The committee's proposal means that Member States will be able to adopt systems that are in keeping with their own sheep farming methods.
During the debate last night, Commissioner Byrne did not move any closer to the committee's viewpoint. We agree on the need to improve traceability, but the issue dividing us is that harmonisation of the objective does not necessarily mean harmonisation of the method.
By contrast, the Italian presidency has been extremely helpful, and the Council is now very close to the committee's position. For these reasons, after intensive procedural discussions this morning, involving the political groups and especially Mr Parish, the PPE-DE Group's shadow rapporteur, we agreed that we should now conclude this matter during the Italian presidency.
The strongest political signal we can give is that we should follow the unanimous vote in committee by a unanimous vote for the report this morning."@en1
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