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"Mr President, I congratulate John Bowis on his excellent work. I have on many an occasion throughout this process thought that we were lucky when we chose him to draw up the report. He has withstood the pressures he has come up against in this emotional issue extremely well. I would also like to thank Commissioner Byrne for his cooperation. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy followed Mr Bowis’s advice and decided not to adopt a position on the location of the Food Safety Agency. In my opinion, that was a wise policy. It is, however, important to define what we expect from the Food Safety Agency and what sort of criteria should apply in selecting its location. In the interests of the citizens of the Union as a whole, it is to be hoped that these criteria will be implemented. They include good reputation in the field of food safety, independence, and good scientific infrastructure incorporating the best available technology and good transport and telecommunications links. Amendment No 19, which I together with Mr Nisticò and Mr Fiori, as well as many others, tabled on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, states these criteria clearly without taking a stand on any particular location. These criteria will all be essential tools in realising the common aim to restore consumer confidence in European food safety as soon as possible.
In talks, there has been a call for the agency to be located in a city in which one of our Institutions is located, as, otherwise, it could not be supervised. This sort of argument is puzzling and worrying and in fact removes the foundations on which the idea of integration is built. I do not think we can in all seriousness say that only an authorised body that is located in the midst of the Community can reliably carry out the task it is entrusted with. There must be other reasons for the euro’s low value than the fact that the European Central Bank is situated in Frankfurt. I myself do not think this way and trust in the strength and basic principles of European integration throughout the EU."@en1
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