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"Mr President, Mr Barroso has rightly highlighted the Lisbon Agenda. As a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, I would say that prerequisites for that agenda are a healthy environment and healthy people. There is work to be done in this year’s programme. On chemicals, we know that we do not have enough knowledge about them. Most chemicals we depend on, some we handle with care and some need to be phased out or banned. We need a workable proposal.
REACH as such is costly, would take some 50 years to implement and would lose some six million lives of animals in the process. The Commission should come forward with proposals that accept and adopt issues such as the ‘one substance, one registration’ proposal, or that on computer profiling and prioritisation.
On climate change, we need to recognise that the consequences of global warming are not just creeping up on us, they are exploding in unexpected and devastating ways across our world. We need the United States as a partner on climate change. There is no point in hammering about Kyoto to it, there is every point in encouraging the United States to develop its own policies and work with us to help save our planet.
On patient mobility, the courts have ruled that patients have the right to go to other Member States if they face undue delay in their own country. That is a great opportunity for patients, but it is a big headache for health service budget managers. It is urgent that we make the opportunity of patients a reality with effective guidance. If we fail to take a political lead on this and establish the ground rules, then the courts will continue to make policy for us. That is not the sort of Europe that I want to see, dictated to simply by court decisions.
Lastly, we will probably very soon face a flu pandemic. It is urgent that we ensure the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control becomes fully and effectively operational without any further delay."@en1
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