Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-25-Speech-2-293"
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"Mr President, I should like to say to the Commissioner that it is not good enough to come up with grand policy statements setting out our ethical position on European values if, when a clear, specific challenge to those values is brought to light, we just say timidly that it might be an infringement.
Today we are faced with an unambiguous case. The European Patent Office has granted Edinburgh University a patent, number 125 7167, covering human cells. It also, ironically, involves a process of sex selection, at a time when we in Europe have firmly committed ourselves to the principle of non-discrimination on the basis of sex. The precautionary principle must apply. If there is any risk of human material becoming a commercial commodity, this Parliament must stand up and be counted and register a formal legal objection to this illegal trafficking in human body parts before it is too late.
This resolution is important, because there is not much time left for us to register our objection to help strike down this patent. I therefore ask my colleagues to vote for this resolution and Mr Blokland’s amendment."@en1
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