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"en.20110706.18.3-276-000"2
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"1. We have previously voted against the following legislation, which removes our right to control our own food labelling. We do not support this existing legislation and do not confirm it in this vote: Council Regulation (EC) No 509/2006 – which prevents us labelling our own products as, for example, ‘Welsh beef’ and ‘Cheddar cheese’, without EU permission.
2. Further, it also gives the Commission unspecified powers to apply delegated acts in the future, thus changing the legislation in a manner which they choose, without reference to the EP members or any voting process in the EP.
3. We also have previously voted against the following legislation, which removes our right to control our own food labelling. We do not support this existing legislation and do not confirm it in this vote: Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 on protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs, which even removes our power to freely designate a product as ‘English’ or ‘Welsh’ or ‘Scottish’: Article 2, section b: “ ‘geographical indication’ means the name of a region, a specific place or, in exceptional cases, a country ...”."@en1
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