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Mr President, I very much welcome this directive from the Commission to control and monitor avian influenza in the EU. We need a strong contingency plan to keep the disease out of the EU and if we are unfortunate enough for the disease to enter Europe we will need the right procedures in place to stamp it out quickly.
What is new in this directive is the monitoring of low pathogen avian influenza for the first time in Europe. I very much support this because the low pathogen form has the potential to mutate into the highly pathogenic form of the disease, which is highly contagious and fatal for poultry. I disagree with the Commission on one point, however. Once low pathogen avian influenza is found in poultry, that poultry needs to be disposed of very quickly so that the potential for the disease to spread and mutate into a highly pathogenic form is stopped immediately.
The directive maintains that meat from poultry found to have LPAI is safe to enter the food chain. I do not argue with the scientific advice, but the processing and marketing of this meat will be almost impossible. Furthermore, it would destroy public confidence in the very high quality of European poultry meat. I ask all Members in this House to support the amendments put forward by the PPE-DE Group in order to establish a common sense approach to stamping out LPAI in the European Union and maintain full public and consumer support for the industry.
While I am on my feet, I would like to add an oral amendment presented to me by Mr Ebner, which I fully support. I understand he has spoken to other groups in Parliament and gained their support. It is to involve hunters in the monitoring for LPAI. The Commissioner was also supportive of this last night. The oral amendment is to insert a recital 11b (new), which would read: ‘whereas hunters in Europe should be encouraged to assist in the monitoring of avian influenza outbreaks in wild birds by informing the competent authorities when they suspect that birds may be infected’. I would like to put that to the House."@en1
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