Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-03-Speech-2-166"
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"Mr President, recent developments in connection with foot-and-mouth disease in a series of countries in the European Union prove that the systems for guaranteeing that animal diseases are efficiently controlled are in a parlous state. This is because of the EU multinational companies’ demand for complete freedom to move goods within the Community, a demand which has been met by establishing the single internal market. The border veterinary and sanitary controls required in order to move animals and animal products between the countries of the European Union have been abolished within this market. As a result, diseases are easily transmitted and it is difficult, if not impossible, to stop diseases moving from one country to another.
At the same time, the certificates testifying to the state of health of the animals and animal products being transported are a symbolic rather than a substantive measure – witness the unacceptable impression created by veterinary services nowadays which do not have even the most rudimentary structure needed in order to cope with the increasing demands, both quantitative and qualitative, of the internal market. This is the natural consequence of the multinationals’ demand that all obstacles be removed and that controls, which are basically left to the companies themselves, be minimised, as we have seen from other recent problems such as dioxin, BSE etc.
The present situation is therefore the price we have to pay for creating a internal market and bowing to the demand for fewer and fewer controls. It merely proves that we need to reinstate border controls at internal frontiers in order to prevent the emergence and spread of epizootic diseases and to compensate livestock farmers for their losses. Any such compensation should not be linked to cuts in Community funding for other agricultural products, especially from countries which have no part in the causes or dimensions of the current problem."@en1
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