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"Mr President, this proposal reminds me of an experience I had a number of years ago on my one and only visit to New Zealand. When I was going to New Zealand I was stopped at customs because I was eating an apple and I would not be let in. I was told there was a danger of bringing diseases into the country. I was fined NZD 120 and when I said, ‘I am going to eat the apple’ I was asked, ‘What are you going to do with the core of the apple?’ and I said, ‘I will throw it away’. He said, ‘Exactly, you are not entitled to, you can bring in a disease’.
This is what is required here because there is a danger, and I understand that now, through globalisation and climate change that pests etc. could damage plants within the European Union. For that reason, it is only right that we should be very vigilant in that regard and have a sensible approach to it because we have to protect our environment and we have to protect our plants. While we do not have to charge people NZD 120 if they eat an apple, there is a certain logic, I suppose, in it. I learned my lesson."@en1
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