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"Madam President, the Commission has stated that, regardless of the legislation in place, there will always be criminals seeking to cheat the system in the pursuit of cheap profit. Doubtless this is true – but that does not mean that, as regulators, we should allow it to continue. We have, as you have said, a responsibility to make any criminal activity – especially in the food supply chain – as difficult as possible to do. Although the EU can claim to have one of the most developed traceability systems in the world, it is clearly not 100% fit for purpose in the processing sector, as other Members have outlined.
The report you mentioned should deal with mandatory country- as well as region-of-origin-labelling systems for meat products, including frozen or processed meats. I say this because such a process would ensure that there was a stronger onus on supermarkets to take responsibility for their supply chain.
We need to take full account of the specific characteristics of the Member States, thereby allowing beef for regions in the North of Ireland to be identified as Irish if producers so wish, or Scottish beef to retain its Scottish labelling, which would aid traceability in general and prevent scandals such as this from occurring again."@en1
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