Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-10-04-Speech-2-064-000"

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lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I would like to thank the rapporteur and the Commission for the excellent work they have done on this report. The anti-torture regulation is an excellent example of the value-based trade on which trade policy should be focused. It demonstrates that values can have, in the right circumstances, priority over business and over profits, and therefore it is to be warmly welcomed. This is also a great success for Parliament, as most of our recommendations have been taken on board. Measures agreed which have already been mentioned include the EU transit ban for torture and capital-punishment goods, which will make sure that, in the future, the EU in no way contributes to the trade in these goods thus inadvertently participating in violations of human rights and international law. We now have a system in place which should guarantee that there are no loopholes in this law but, as Daniel Caspary has rightly said, what is now important is the full commitment of all the Member States to continued monitoring of the situation. And, while I welcome the regulation, it is worth pausing in a debate like this to remind ourselves that, incredibly in the modern world, torture is actually still on the increase and the use of the death penalty went up in the last three years for which have statistics. So this is a good step in the right direction, a good victory for Parliament and a good decision by the European Union to strengthen the 2005 regulation, but let us not be complacent about the situation we face in the current world."@en1
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