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"Ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank you for the fact that here in Parliament we are striving to safeguard Europe’s cultural heritage. Across the political divide, we share the goal of ensuring that the traditional technical or geographical designations of spirituous liquors are accurate, and that no other products can use the same designations. Not only are we safeguarding cultural diversity but we are also protecting consumers’ rights. I have voted the way I did so that all consumers, wherever they order a glass of vodka, whiskey, rum or Czech
can be sure that they are getting exactly what they want in their drink.
I have voted, therefore, in favour of being able to distinguish from the wording on the label whether something is other than a traditional form of liquor. Spirits made from bananas, for example, rather than from potatoes, cereals or molasses, should not be called banana vodka, but banana drink or banana spirit. Perhaps it would not be so difficult to defend European vodka in the WTO. European consumers must be sure that what they are buying is what they asked for and not a fake.
It is similarly important for the Czech Republic that the labelling of Czech
which is traditionally distilled from plums, cannot be used also for, say, European distilled spirits that are plum-flavoured because plum juice has been added to the spirit. Trust me, that cannot be compared to plums distilled in
and if anyone is unsure about that, I would ask them to come to my country and try some.
I would ask my vote in favour in the last nominal vote to be recorded because my equipment was unfortunately not working."@en1
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