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lpv:document identification number	"en.20010403.12.2-297"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Heidi Hautala2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Vihreät (1999-07-20--2003-03-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to express my warmest thanks to our rapporteur, Professor Trakatellis, for having once again very skilfully steered a report through the channels of the committee, a report that has aroused much interest, and one that is very important and, for that reason, has left itself open to the hundreds and hundreds of amendments that we have all tabled. I would like to draw particular attention to the fact that rarely during a committee’s work has there been so much cooperation among political groups, and for that an unqualified thank you goes to the rapporteur. As my fellow Member, Mrs Schleicher, criticised this report for perhaps not focussing adequately on the essentials and featuring too many good intentions, I might first of all say that the final result could have been a lot more cluttered. It could have expressed a lot more in the way of hopes for the future. I think the rapporteur has seen to it that it covers the whole issue, however. As for Mrs Schleicher’s own group, it added a totally new area of focus. Her group asked for the fifth special objective to be adopted, the one connected with gene therapy, diagnosis of genetic diseases, cloning, and so on. My group certainly was not of the opinion that this should be added here. Mr President, public health is a major area of activity for the European Union as the Treaty of Amsterdam does indeed oblige the Union to take account of the health issue in all areas of its work. In this respect we face some very demanding challenges. My group would particularly like to underline the importance of this sort of integration and the Commission is going to have the enormous task of adapting agricultural policy to the demands of health. Let us just think about the food we eat, for example. It must mean that in the future we will be eating more vegetarian food and rather less meat, and so on. In industrial policy it will mean that when we adopt a strategy on chemicals the basic issues of public health must be made very clear. It will also mean that the food industry will have to accept that tighter regulations will have to be adopted, for example, with regard to the salt content of food. There are many conflicts to come, and we can only hope that the Commission will work on these proposals and then the Council of Ministers and Parliament will clarify this situation further in the second reading."@en1

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