Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-14-Speech-2-138"
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"We have, to the best of our ability, voted in favour of better animal husbandry. A number of amendments to be voted on were, however, rather too detailed for elected political representatives to adopt positions on. Detailed issues relating to periods of darkness, foot pad lesions and first-week mortality in connection with chickens kept for meat production are difficult for a layperson to decide about. We should have welcomed being able, instead, to take decisions on general principles, with experts subsequently designing the more precise regulations. What we have here is a consultation procedure for the European Parliament and not a codecision procedure, which might have enabled us to make a more principled statement on the matter.
We also wish to emphasise how important it is to make further progress in negotiations within the World Trade Organisation in order to achieve an across-the board consensus in favour of more stringent production requirements where food safety and animal protection are concerned."@en1
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