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"Mr President, in 2005 the abolition of textile quotas left the doors of the Union wide open to all kinds of dumping. That was disastrous for employment and the environment, and, despite appearances, it is disastrous in the long term for consumer health.
It is high time that we introduced measures aiming to protect and develop jobs and to promote know-how among textile employees, as well as consumer health. Even though we wanted to go further, we are approving the proposals that have been submitted to us concerning origin labelling, the study on hazardous substances and the mandatory marking of the fibre composition of textiles. We must still make sure that we have the resources to implement this protection and information in all the Member States and to take action against offenders.
Yes, we must make sure that we have the resources to combat counterfeiting – at the borders of the Union, for example, but also in the very heart of the Single Market. This is a question of political will. It has to be said that, unfortunately, more resources are being put into tracking down Tunisians at the French-Italian border than into combating the sale of counterfeits.
If we consider that fact, then, it is clearly better to be a commodity than a human being in Europe. We must change this."@en1
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