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dcterms:Date	"2011-05-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statement by the President of the European Parliament’s delegation to the Conciliation Committee - Novel foods (continuation of debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110511.33.3-491-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-05-11-Speech-3-492-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Corinne Lepage2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Citoyenneté Action Participation pour le 21ème siècle (2010-03-31--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I would first like to thank Mrs Liotard, Mr Pittella, Mr Leinen, and the entire negotiating team. Thanks to them, we have maintained an extremely cohesive position throughout this very lengthy trialogue and I think that the only positive aspect of the dossier is that the European Parliament has been united in defending public health and the interests of consumers. That is what we have been elected for and not for anything else. While I recognise the need to move forward and not to assign blame, there is no getting away from the facts, and when it came to conducting negotiations in which Parliament had already abandoned a great deal, well, that was too much. As if we should even be asking ourselves whether or not to label products sold on the European market when the consumer’s freedom of choice is fundamental in European law! What has happened is totally unacceptable and we have been fobbed off with spurious pretexts. We have been presented with legal excuses. We were not entering into a commercial war; the rules of the WTO were not being violated. In legal terms, this was all untrue. Not being able to label is an excuse. It is technically incorrect. It is perfectly possible to label and trace. Simply, it was something we were unwilling to do because, as Mr Leinen pointed out just now, we put interests other than those of consumers first. So, now, we need to move forward, and we need to move forward quickly. The issue of cloning is increasingly being used by all who want to call the European institutions into question. It is an argument put forward by those who mistrust our institutions. It is an argument put forward by those who mistrust the foods placed on the European market. For pity’s sake, we urgently need to adopt a clear position on cloning to prevent cloned meat and the offspring of cloned animals being placed on the European market, which is what European consumers and European citizens want!"@en1
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