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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as a substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a full member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, I have had the occasion to work on this dossier. I have the impression that, on this issue, the Commission is not taking the real protagonists of the event – the breeders and the producers – into consideration. The aim of the proposals is to introduce a ban on voluntary labelling – a measure that is precisely not obligatory – which allows producers who choose to do so to provide additional information on the label. Since the same organisations representing breeders and producers have asked for this measure to continue to be provided, it is paradoxical not to concede this possibility. On the contrary, within the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, work is being carried out in order that our farmers can provide data relating to the products that they sell in as transparent a way as possible. It therefore seems counterproductive to work, on the one hand, to protect the provision of information to consumers and make it transparent while, on the other hand, abolishing measures, voluntary measures even, that go in the same direction. It is clear that these are choices to be made if the intention is to lower the quality and the standards of agricultural products. There is no other explanation of a comparable measure against breeders committed to providing indications of quality, such as the choice of one type of feed rather than another. For these reasons, I will be voting against certain amendments."@en1
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