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"Madam President, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the single market as one of the most important instruments for promoting economic growth in the European Union. I agree with the opinion of the author of this report, Mr Busuttil, that ensuring the benefits of the single market for citizens and businesses will not end with the adoption of this legislation. I do believe, however, that besides improving mechanisms for surveillance over the transposition of directives and assistance for businesses in promoting their rights to enjoy the benefits of the single market through support mechanisms such as the SOLVIT website, the Your Europe portal, Enterprise Europe Network, European Consumer Centres or the European employment service, we should also look at the work of certifying bodies, which open up the way to the common market for each product. In my country, the State Veterinary and Food Administration provides an almost constant stream of public information about revelations regarding food products that have found their way into the sales network and which fail to meet the required level of quality and food security. You all probably remember the dioxin contaminated eggs, pork and poultry meat, which appeared last year in the northern regions of Germany. Recently, we also learned that a company in Poland had re-packaged salt for spreading on roads in small packages and sold it as a cooking salt. In this way, road salt got into bread, meat products and canned fish. A consignment of chicken from the land of the Gallic cockerel, which came onto the market in Slovakia, was nothing short of a scandal. The French poultry contained offal that should not have been in the pack, there were small, broken bones, and the gall bladder had been disgorged throughout the product. There was a similar situation with packets of flakes which caused vomiting. Such products, which have no place in a common market, are appearing with increasing frequency. I therefore believe that as part of the improvement of the single market, we should also pay attention, in the interest of our consumers, to the improvement of oversight mechanisms when introducing products onto our common market."@en1
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