Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-12-12-Speech-3-409"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-12-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I rise very much to support what Mr Stevenson has just said and also very much to support what the Commission is trying to do. I think we do have to realise the scale of sheep farming and the number of animals involved. You are talking about 25 million sheep in the UK, 8.5 million in France, 3 million in Ireland and significant numbers in Spain and other countries. The system has got to be right. If we are going to introduce an electronic system, it has got to be practical and cost-effective, and farmers have got to be able to use it practically. As Mr Stevenson has quite rightly said, the sheep is an animal that is not of huge value, so all of this is not going to be done by veterinarians. A lot of this is going to have to be carried out by farmers, and when they come to read those tags, it is has got to be practically done up the side of a mountain in wet conditions, and all sorts of things. I have seen a lot of these electronic systems work in hotel rooms as you move people through different doorways, and they say there is no collision between the different tags. You also want a system where, when a lorry-load of sheep drives into a market, in ideal circumstances, you want to be able to electronically check every sheep that is in that lorry. This is the ideal system. What I say to you quite clearly is that there is no point in moving forward on electronic tagging until we have got a practical system, cost-effective and ready to use. Therefore, I think you are absolutely right to say, ‘Come back at the end of 2009 and see where we are’. As Mr Stevenson has quite rightly said, let us use this as a voluntary system when Member States are ready, when there is a lot of movement of sheep, and when we have got a system that works. Please do not bring it in too quickly, before we are ready."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 chair; AGRI (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-04-06)3 substitute; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-14--2008-01-15)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2007-02-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Neil Parish (PPE-DE ). –"1

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