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"Mr President, I would first like to join in thanking Mr Whitehead for his excellent work. He has continued along the wise line adopted by Mr Bowis in his own report. In their proposals the European Parliament has clearly taken its own share of responsibility for restoring the faith of the European consumer and guaranteeing food safety.
The most important part of the regulation now under discussion concerns setting up the Food Safety Authority. I am particularly pleased that the Committee, on Mr Whitehead’s proposal, decided to repeat the criteria I initiated, which were accepted back in October last year during the reading of Mr Bowis’s report. It should have a long standing tradition in food safety in order to lend credibility to the authority in the eyes of over 300 million European consumers. It should not endanger the authority’s independence and integrity, it should provide a good scientific infrastructure and facilities in the field of food safety. It must have good transport and communications connections. This has a particularly great impact considering that even in October the Social Democratic Group was opposed to the setting of these criteria. Now, headed by Mr Whitehead, they too appear to understand that it is important to establish what we expect of a Food Authority and what kind of criteria we will set for its location. For the benefit of all the citizens of Europe we must hope that these criteria will also be met when the Council reaches its decision on the issue. According to the agreement already entered into by Parliament, proposed amendments which directly support a particular location will not be accepted. This policy should be maintained.
Mr President, I would finally like to express my deep regret that the Council does not appear able to reach a decision on this matter sufficiently quickly. This being the case, setting up the authority is at risk of being delayed compared with what was planned. Setting up the Food Authority is a matter in which the confidence of the citizens must not be any further shaken by creating political deals on solutions that have nothing in common or – even worse – by creating the impression that political horse trading is taking place in the Council, which should clearly be an area of politics belonging to the past."@en1
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