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"Thank you very much, Mr President. Commissioner, perhaps I can just endorse what Ms McGuinness had to say, as I view these things quite differently from the way in which you see them. I do not see this as protectionism, but as an ability and a duty to inform consumers. This is not – and I must contradict a fellow Member here – because I want to put a value on it. I am not saying that local or regional products are better. I just want to tell consumers that they can decide in an informed way whether they want a product from their own region, either because they are familiar with the conditions of production, or because they believe in having products on their dinner table that come from the local region for reasons of protecting nature and the environment.
I really do see this as a major opportunity for consumers to make informed choices to the benefit of the environment, informed choices to the benefit of jobs in the region, informed choice to the benefit of certain production methods, and I see absolutely no danger to the internal market, as I see precisely the major opportunity to make an informed choice in favour of Irish butter or Irish milk if that is what I want. However, if I want milk and cheese from the Forest Quarter of Lower Austria, then I need to know where products come from or else I cannot realise that freedom of choice."@en1
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