Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-30-Speech-2-238"

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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
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lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-30-Speech-2-2392
lpv:speaker	lp:Phillip Whitehead2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I should like to thank Mrs Thors for this report and all her work on it. It confirms my already high opinion of her parliamentary talents. She will be a sad loss to this Parliament when she goes back go Finland. Here we have an active and intelligent packaging of a Commission proposal. It has received broad support in our committees and in the responses from the Council and the Commission, which I found to be entirely constructive. If we could do this more often, everybody's life would be simpler. However, there were certain questions that we had to raise. One was the extent to which traceability would be possible. I am glad that Mrs Thors took on board my own amendments. I accept her advice that we should not vote for Amendment No 17. Had she told me to go the other way, I would have done. I believe that the issue of public openness on this matter is one we should take into account. Another point that some of us are slightly concerned about – and it comes up time after time in these debates – is the precise role of the European Food Safety Authority. Time after time the mantra comes up that there will be a reference to EFSA, that it will do this or that. We were due to have heard from the chief executive of EFSA this week. That has been postponed. Where we are moving towards greater food safety, safer food packaging, better labelling and so on, we should not require EFSA to do all the work. Where there is a measure of derogation built into this, all of the Member States seem to be reasonably happy with it. Where the Commission has done a good job, we should move ahead and see how far the existing institutions can do it for themselves. I wish this report well and equally Mrs Thors. I congratulate her on this report."@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

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