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"Mr President, I should also like to thank Mr De Rossa for his report. For the record, Mr Ford, the formal proposal to the committee to prepare this report came from me. It therefore cannot be said that the Greens opposed it.
I should like to highlight a couple of issues, one being the role of logging companies. There are proposals within the report as to how we could help them to face up to their responsibilities, given that, at times, they use bushmeat as an apparently cheap and readily available food source for their workers and their vehicles are used to carry poached meat. The proposal is to incorporate this into the European Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade process, which I welcome.
Secondly, the issue of importing into the European Union and the highly questionable and grim circumstances surrounding it has already been raised. We could do more at this end, in terms of educating consumers and suppliers in the Union, to help them realise what the effect of their actions is on the ecology and development in the countries of origin and to stop people from regarding bushmeat as a luxury delicacy, whereas what we are really looking at is the potential extinction of animals in certain places."@en1
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