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"Mr President, my congratulations to the rapporteur. We pay a high price nowadays, because much of our diet consists of unhealthy products, many of which are contaminated with various agrochemicals. We need to adopt a Mediterranean diet, using products without a lot of fats and pesticides. Organic products are starting to guarantee a better diet, which is why they have been growing over recent years and quite right too.
The European Union, in a bid to protect consumers, has laid down proper production rules and strict controls and, in my opinion, quite rightly so. However, I still have doubts about organic products imported from third countries, as to whether they are produced to the standards which apply in the European Union. The certificates which accompany organic products from third countries must refer each time to the specific consignment. Undertakings in third countries producing organic products for export to the European Union should be inspected once a year. The European Union wants organic products, but for reasons of consumer protection and equal competition with our farmers, all these controls are needed, because otherwise we shall not have results. We shall simply help the supermarket chains to get richer at the expense of consumer health and at the expense of European farmers."@en1
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