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"Mr President, the directive that is now before us, concerning general product safety, offers the consumer excellent protection against unsafe products. Moreover, it is particularly suited to achieving the internal market, free movement and the harmonisation which is required for this in an effective manner.
I greatly appreciate the fact that the Council has adopted a large number of the amendments accepted by Parliament at first reading. The directive in its current version provides for greater transparency, more active monitoring of the markets, a better definition of producer and consumer responsibilities – for that was still a stumbling block at first reading – stricter criteria for product safety and stricter criteria for testing these products. It allows for better and more effective intervention when products need to be withdrawn from the market.
New, too, is rapid exchange, which I very much welcome in Europe. I would now like to turn my attention to a specific problem. It was raised in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, and concerns the export ban, enshrined in Article 13. This entails an automatic export ban on products from the Community once the Commission has been requested to examine the safety of these. We do not support this. Indeed, the proposal that a request for a safety check alone should lead to an absolute and automatic ban is hardly justifiable. Needless to say, the European Union is in favour of a high level of protection and very strict safety requirements, but a distinction must be drawn between a safe and a hazardous product. My colleague, Mrs Marialiese Flemming, whom I represent here, has tabled an amendment in this connection, and she suggests only allowing the automatic export ban to apply if the product for which a ban is being issued here should also be banned on account of safety. This point is of crucial importance to the PPE-DE group, and I hope that our fellow MEPs will support us by adopting the amendment tabled by Mrs Flemming on our behalf."@en1
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