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"Mr President, I speak in support of the Roth-Behrendt report and congratulate the rapporteur on the quality and thoroughness of her report. I note with approval too that the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy have adopted all but one of the amendments of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy.
Colleagues, without doubt, there is major and well-grounded public abhorrence about the use of animals for testing ingredients in cosmetics, and all concerned want better protection for animals worldwide. This has been reflected in the consistent line this Parliament has taken in the past.
The cosmetics industry is about marketing glamour, dreams and illusions and I am not as critical as some previous speakers about this. Without doubt much of the responsible sector of the cosmetics industry has taken considerable strides in moving towards fewer tests on animals, but public opinion is well-grounded and it is good that it has been reflected, not just in the past, but strongly reiterated and strengthened in the Roth-Behrendt report.
We cannot know about the WTO. There has been no challenge yet and the arguments in my view ring a bit hollow from the United States of America about the possible neglect of our international obligations in the same week as President Bush has so publicly repudiated the Kyoto agreement on climate change. Nevertheless, it may well be that the international cosmetics industry draws back from a WTO challenge if they know that the full glare of public scrutiny is focused on testing ingredients on animals.
It is right that we hold the line. This report is well worked out in its detail. If it does lead to a challenge under the WTO rules then we from the European Union will have to argue our corner vigorously. If we listen to those arguments, we would do almost nothing in this Parliament. It is not that we are insensitive to those arguments, but that we place them in a context of what is the stronger and the greater good. I commend the Roth-Behrendt report to you."@en1
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