Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-25-Speech-3-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Food safety2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.2.3-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Mihail Papayannakis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 substitute; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Synaspismos tis Aristeras kai tis Proodou (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first of all, we too naturally support all the compromise and composite amendments jointly decided in the Committee on the Environment which, I trust, will be adopted by plenary. However, Mr President, I should like to highlight two points here. The subject which we are debating clearly illustrates just how superficial and empty our debate on the political unification of Europe is. This is no paradox. A real food safety agency will never get off the ground, unless of course it has strong political backing. Mr President, we are talking about legislation, initially about application, we are talking about responding to danger, about measures, policy changes and comparing imports – i.e. controlling the safety of products coming in from outside. My question is: who is going to do all this? The national authorities? But the crises which occurred in the past were generally covered up by the authorities in the Member State. Need I remind you of the United Kingdom's policy on BSE? What agency is going to be able to exercise controls, carry out investigations and propose measures on behalf of the whole of the European Union? I, to give a minor example, would love to know what the agency now being proposed would have done about the mad cow crisis in Britain, about the dioxin crisis in Belgium and about the genetically-modified cotton and foodstuffs, such as cotton seed oil, in Greece. Not much, I think. Unless this agency comes up to the standards which will give it political teeth, I do not think it will achieve much. The best case scenario is that it will work alongside the Environmental Agency, which does an excellent information job, but which freely admits that the environmental situation in Europe has not improved."@en1

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