Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-02-Speech-3-177"
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"We have two reports concerning the treatment and transport of animals: that will be a very familiar subject for the Commissioner. I would like to say at the outset – and I am sure that the Chairman of the Committee will say the same – how much we regret the absence of Dagmar Roth-Behrendt tonight. She is one of the most energetic, enterprising and intelligent members of the committee. She is the coordinator for our group on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection Committee and, in her general enthusiasm, she is like a one-woman Congress of Berlin. She is in Berlin tonight and is to have an operation in the morning. I am sure the whole House, even at this late hour, would join with me in wishing Dagmar well, and believing that she will recover with her customary vigour in the very near future.
Dagmar Roth-Behrendt intended to move one of the two amendments tonight. I would like to say briefly why I and my group now believe that it would be for the better passage of this directive if it goes through unamended. That would mean, therefore, that we would wish to vote against both Amendments No 1 and No 2: Amendment No 1 for the very simple reason that it smacks of a desire to scuttle back into a form of neo-protectionism, but certainly over-regulation, of animal imports, which is a desirable but unnecessary consequence of the many scares we have had in recent years. In my country we are particularly aware of that, but we believe that the OIE code covers trade in live animals and will protect countries which do not have BSE from introduction of the disease. Additional measures against imports are not justifiable on health grounds and I expect that the Commission will say the same thing.
Even more briefly, on Amendment No 2, which did indeed come in my name: at that stage, we tabled this because we believed that if there was to be a vote through this Parliament for tests at twenty-four months in all the Member States quasi-imposed upon them by the Commission, this needed to be amended with a provision that those Member States which already have other forms of testing – or in the case of the United Kingdom, the over thirty-month cow – should not have to go through that procedure. Given that the principal amendment fell, it seems to me now that the second amendment should fall also. So, from the point of view of my group, we are not supporting any amendments."@en1
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