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"Madam President, Commissioner Verheugen, ladies and gentlemen, ‘better regulation’ has already become a catchword that no longer needs translating. It is important to review acts, regulations and directives on an ongoing basis, and it is right to then incorporate into the legislative text any amendments that new findings render necessary and possible. Consequently, I, too, welcome the Commission’s proposal to amend EC Regulation No 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
I am obliged to the rapporteur, Mrs Roth-Behrendt, for her report. The improvements it introduces reveal a great deal of knowledge of practical necessities and possibilities, and we hope that the Council and the Commission will follow our recommendations. When we set this regulation in motion in 2001 – with inner uncertainty and without sufficient scientific evidence, and prompted by contemporary events – it was a good measure that pointed the way ahead. In the present day, we can see that there has been a change – indeed an improvement – in our sensitivity in dealing with animals, animal husbandry and feeding animals, at least.
We support an internationally agreed system of measures to tackle bovine and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies at the level of the World Organisation for Animal Health. This will also make it possible to gather more information from countries that, unfortunately, do not yet have any data available. As Konrad Adenauer once said, there is no law against becoming cleverer. Our knowledge is now much greater as a result of the increased efforts in the field of research, too. Yet we have also been confirmed in our old knowledge of nature. Our measuring procedures have become so refined that it is possible to detect a sugar cube in Lake Constance. Zero tolerances can be measured, but they naturally entail problems – which some Members have just described – because zero tolerance does not exist in nature. That is why we need a tolerance for natural contamination of feed with animal protein, a practicable limit, which we should like to fix at 0.5% today. I think that this is a compromise that all parties can support, and for that reason I would also ask the Council and the Commission to support Amendment 57.
Finally, I should like to remind the Commission that a loophole has emerged as regards the recycling of swill. The deadlines are about to expire. We are anxiously awaiting a proposal from the Commission on this, with a view to optimum, safe use and recycling of these materials, which are not waste products but recoverable materials that, if properly processed, can also be properly used."@en1
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