Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-04-Speech-2-326"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Reducing alcohol-related harm (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070904.28.2-326"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-04-Speech-2-3272
lpv:speaker	lp:John Bowis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I very much welcome this report and the compromise position that came from the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, with the sole exception of the clause on labelling, which we will try to put right in the vote tomorrow. I start from the belief that alcohol can be good for you in regular and limited quantities, particularly at the years of discretion which you and I have reached. It is good for people as we approach maturity. However, it can be bad for us, and that is what this report is about: it is about the binge drinking, the under-age drinking and the drink-driving; it is about the consequences of alcohol consumption in terms of the deaths of 195 000 people in Europe from accidents, violence, liver disease, lung disease, breast cancer, mental disorders, addiction, cardiovascular, foetal and reproductive problems and so forth and so on. It is the third-biggest cause of early death. That is why we need a sensible drinking policy; that is why we urge the Commissioner to stick to that sensible message that he began with and why we would suggest that he does not go down the road of trying to harmonise criminal law, not least because you cannot harmonise the enforcement of criminal law, and we know that in drink-driving that is a major problem between Member States. Equally, it is a mistake to try to harmonise labelling. By all means, let us see what France does and let us learn from the lessons that it comes up with. However, our message tonight is: let us have a sensible policy for sensible drinking, recognising the benefits but also the risks and the hazards of alcohol, some of which can be drunk to excess, some of which can be drunk to such excess that it is alcoholism. But alcohol is with us and we need to learn to live with it."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Bowis (PPE-DE ). –"1

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