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dcterms:Date	"2009-05-04"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090504.15.1-062"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Antonios Trakatellis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2007-01-23--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, first of all thank you for the information you have given us, which was comprehensive, and I welcome the measures which you have taken. I should like to draw your attention to three basic issues, which you also mentioned and which I consider to be necessary in order for us to address a possible pandemic. The first is the plans which we have and which have already been processed by the Council, the European Commission and Parliament in connection with avian influenza. We therefore have plans which are, in fact, quite good, despite the fact that certain omissions were criticised by specialist scientists. I should therefore like to ask if these plans have been completed, if the Member States have adopted them and if they are ready to be applied, as the weakest link is very important here, and finally, there is the coordination which you have mentioned; I am delighted to hear that you are ready to undertake it jointly with the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for this entire influenza story. The second issue that I want to mention is that of antiviral drugs. An obligation was introduced for the Member States to have an adequate quota. Antiviral drugs are also used for treatment, but of course they are for prevention and there needs to be guidelines here, because they cannot be used randomly; they must be used properly. The third issue that I should like to raise is that it would be useful if we could find a vaccine for the new influenza. This vaccine will be very important and I believe that today, with the techniques at our disposal, companies could have it ready in three to four months. So I would like you to exert pressure in this direction to ensure that an effort really is made to ensure that we have a new vaccine which, together with the vaccine for seasonal influenza, which you have rightly extended in order to combat this influenza for all the known scientific reasons, would constitute the best barrier to a possible influenza pandemic."@en1
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