Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-01-Speech-4-029"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Progress of EU and Member State measures to combat BSE2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010201.3.4-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-01-Speech-4-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Sergio Berlato2
lpv:spokenAs	member; UEN (1999-07-22--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2001-03-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-09-09--2002-01-14)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; PECH (1999-09-09--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would certainly like to emphasise the fact that there is a need – and this has been repeated on several occasions – to restore consumer confidence with regard to operators in the sector. In order to do this, I call upon the Commission, as I have done on countless occasions, to provide clarification, that is to make all data available to allow correct information to contribute to reducing this collective psychosis of which, it appears, even we have been victims in part. I would like to stir things up by saying that if we limit ourselves to the facts, to the current state of affairs, one is much more likely to be struck by lightning than infected by BSE. By this I do not mean that we should not adopt all necessary precautions to prevent even a single human life being put at risk, but we should take care, because the media are causing such damage and are paralysing the sector, often without any objective information to provide accurate news. The provision of accurate information is thus an indispensable requirement if the problem is to be addressed in the proper manner and if we are to prevent psychosis being encouraged in an unjustified – I repeat – often unjustified manner. It is important to let consumers know what they are eating: in this respect the move towards compulsory labelling to provide consumers with accurate information on the animal's characteristics, from birth to slaughter, should be speeded up. With regard to interventions, the need to allow operators in the sector to overcome this moment of crisis should be not be forgotten. Thus, direct economic intervention should be used: it should be remembered that many breeders have thousands of head of cattle and they don't know what to do faced with the reduction in demand for their product. We need to create stockpiles through public intervention. This direct intervention must ensure that companies in financial crisis receive the direct State support."@en1

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