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Madam President, I must congratulate Mr Berman and thank him for his work, because his political position has been very constructive and realistic and has enabled us to reach an agreement amongst the different positions expressed by Members.
This draft report, adopted by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, on this new directive on the protection of chickens kept for meat production, is balanced, because it takes account of the production practices of the majority of Member States.
The key point of this report is densities, as you know. From the information that I have been gathering, the densities laid down in the report by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development are more than acceptable in most of the European regions, but they could cause certain problems in certain very specific areas of the Union.
As rapporteur, I have tried to reflect the opinion of the majority and, incidentally, with regard to amendments, I would like to warn you that I do not intend to support the majority of them. I do believe, however, that Amendment 42 responds to a highly justified political concern, extending minimum standards applied in the European Union to imports from third countries.
With regard to Amendment 44, which removes the implementation of labelling for meat subject to the new welfare directive, I must tell you that this runs counter to the need to give added value to these products in order to provide greater visibility for the efforts made by European producers.
The European Union has been producing abundant legislation over recent years with a view to improving animal welfare and responding to one of the concerns expressed by European public opinion. In this way, we have managed to considerably improve, sometimes at the expense of jeopardising the viability of the sector, the protection of laying hens, calves and breeding sows.
We must recognise that this effort should lead to an improvement in the quality of products for the European consumer, and this quality must be accompanied by an effective policy in the field of labelling.
Nevertheless, supporting the amendments that have been presented, the majority of which toughen the legislation pointlessly, will cause adaptation problems in certain regions."@en1
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