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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Health rules concerning animal by-products2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020312.13.2-322"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-12-Speech-2-3232
lpv:speaker	lp:Inger Schörling2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--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) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Miljöpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to begin by thanking the rapporteur, Mrs Paulsen, for the excellent work she has done to get this regulation on health rules concerning animal by-products through. I also know that Mr Staes is pleased with the cooperation and the way in which we have been able to reach compromises as well as with Mrs Paulsen’s work with the shadow rapporteur. Thank you for that. This is a very technical and complicated matter which can be difficult to get to grips with. At the same time, it goes without saying of course that we must guarantee safe food for the citizens of the EU and, that being the case, we must do so throughout the entire chain. Therefore, how we treat animals and what we feed them on is naturally important. I am very pleased about the principles which the European Parliament and the Council have agreed on, in other words that only by-products from animals approved for human consumption may be used as animal feed. The most important thing is possibly also the ban on re-use within the same species, that is, the fact that we are rejecting cannibalism. I understand the Council’s position in seeking to prohibit catering waste in animal feed. It is difficult to guarantee safe and risk-free handling of catering waste. How can we know what mixed household waste actually consists of? Now we have tabled a compromise amendment, Amendment 22, where exceptions are made for catering waste in category 3, and we submit Amendment 25 in which some Member States are permitted to feed catering waste for a transitional period of a maximum of four years. I am not entirely happy about this amendment but I am still willing to accept it so that we can get the report through. At the moment, there is a kind of moratorium on the use of meat and bone meal in animal feed. This means that the Council could at any time decide to permit the use of meat and bone meal once more. The Verts/ALE Group has therefore submitted Amendment No 20. I ask my colleagues to vote in favour of it as it does provide a kind of assurance that the Council must bring the issue up again before any decisions in that direction can be made."@en1

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