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"Explanation of vote in relation to the report by Mrs Poli Bortone on a draft regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on nutrition and health claims made on foods.
The Commission’s draft regulation on nutrition and health claims is based on a number of assumptions about which we have our doubts: the assumptions not only that what is healthy is a matter of absolute truth and that sales pitches and advertisements are harmful and should be regulated but also that people’s eating habits can be controlled through political decisions. Finally, there is an assumption that the EU has a political task to perform in this area.
None of these assumptions is valid. There is no absolute truth about what is harmful or beneficial. New discoveries are made, and old truths are re-examined, which is why it is quite inappropriate to use political decisions to force people into behaving in a particular way. Political decisions can neither guarantee that people have a balanced diet nor determine how beneficial or otherwise individual products are in their contexts. Each person must accept responsibility for his or her own diet on the basis of his or her own assumptions. Products based on new discoveries must be given a chance to establish themselves in the market so that they might compete successfully with existing products.
At present there is no opportunity for voting against the Commission’s proposal. That is why we choose to vote in favour of the European Parliament’s proposal, which contains fewer regulations than both the Commission’s proposal and the Council’s position."@en1
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