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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Public health (2001 – 2006)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011211.12.2-279"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-11-Speech-2-2802
lpv:speaker	lp:Didier Rod2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"We want a strong health programme as early as January 2002. It is in Europe’s interest. This is why we do not understand the attitude of the Council which, by not wanting to fill in the details of this programme, is in fact leaving the Commission with all the powers, while Members of the European Parliament will be deprived of any right of review for the next six years. The European Parliament must be consulted about the annual priorities, and I hope that our fellow Members will support us on this point. Far from being innovative, this programme restricts itself mainly to the setting up of an epidemiological monitoring network. As far as we are concerned, this is not the main priority; we already have comparable data from other countries. The Community added value should appear upstream, in the form of a reduction in the health risks emanating, for the most part, from our environment in the broadest sense of the word: transport, pollution, chemicals, food etc., but also from our behaviour and from social, economic and environmental inequalities. We recommend prevention throughout the world, but we have to start by applying it ourselves in our health programme. This programme should also give greater consideration to the risks arising from transmissible diseases, including in the candidate countries. AIDS remains a scourge in Europe, and tuberculosis is resurfacing everywhere. We also need to think about the therapeutic technologies that we wish to give priority to. The ‘all-drug’ approach has revealed its limitations with the increasing levels of resistance to antibiotics and vaccines. It is time to take other methods and replacement treatments into consideration, but this should also be done on the basis of relevant evaluations. Finally, we cannot give in on this matter of the budget. Even EUR 380 million over a period of six years is not enough. By sticking at EUR 280 million, the Council would be demonstrating a desire to restrict the actions of the European Union on public health issues, which is something that we cannot comprehend. That is why we support Mr Trakatellis’ report, which is the result of numerous exchanges between us and which enables us to demonstrate to the Council that the European Parliament’s opinions on health matters must be taken into consideration. They are reasonable and they are essential to the health of all Europeans."@en1

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