Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-10-Speech-4-067"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Organic food and farming (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050310.6.4-067"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-03-10-Speech-4-0682
lpv:speaker	lp:Katerina Batzeli2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the production of organic products cannot be seen as a utopian economic and social policy. On the contrary, it is a strategic policy which safeguards a new qualitative consumer standard, a new environmental standard and a new dimension to rural development. It is a framework which guarantees the protection of public health and a new way of safeguarding the competitiveness of agriculture. I should like to highlight two issues which are important to the further development and promotion of organic products as a dynamic sector in forthcoming years. First, the Member States must, when planning the application of the reformed common agricultural policy at national level, encourage young farmers to become active in the production of organic products, as well as granting rights from their national reserves for the promotion of organic farming in designated areas. The second issue – and this relates to the first – is the problem of the coexistence of organic crops and genetically modified products. Organic farming and the production of agricultural products with integrated management will be destroyed. They will be contaminated by the production of modified crops which, in addition, will also contaminate public health, in other words our health. The Commission and certain Member States must understand this and must renounce modified products, because the repercussions for our health are more dangerous than the repercussions from mad cow disease. The European Union cannot be hypocritical by promoting crops which respect public health and the environment, on the one hand, while allowing products such as modified products, on the other. It is time we made an honest decision for the citizens of Europe."@en1

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