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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	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020312.13.2-323"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-12-Speech-2-3242
lpv:speaker	lp:Dominique F.C. Souchet2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2002-11-17)3 member; NA (2001-01-31--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 member; AGRI (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 unknown; Mouvement pour la France (2000-11-23--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, at first sight, this report on health requirements for animal by-products appears to be very technical. It forces us to face a genuine problem for society and to take into account two realities that are not easy to reconcile. Firstly, the legitimate concern of consumers with regard to the BSE epidemic and the terrifying human form of BSE, namely Kreutzfeld-Jacob’s disease. And secondly, the necessary concern for farmers and all employees of the meat industry, whose work is being jeopardised by the frightening – and mounting – burden of restrictions that are being heaped upon them in the name of the precautionary principle. Despite the fact that, several years ago, the fifth quarter or meat by-products were re-processed and sold, which met slaughterhouses’ overheads. We now send these by-products – and quite rightly, I am sure – to be destroyed at great expense. As a result, meat is constantly becoming more expensive for consumers whilst farmers are no longer paid a fair price for their animals. The common position, on which we are due to vote, is creating a number of technical bottlenecks, since it is based on an extreme concept of the precautionary principle. For example, is it a good idea to ban spreading sludge, manure and stercoral matter from slaughterhouses on land and to send 20 million tonnes of this waste to incineration, when we do not yet know how to process the two million tonnes of animal feed that we have? Is it a good idea to involve several thousand local and regional slaughterhouses in building hundreds of sewage treatment plants and incinerators when BSE detection tests are making swift progress? We will therefore reserve judgment, Mr President, on this extremely pernickety and excessively cautious text which will place such harsh restrictions on slaughterhouses, that many will be at risk of closing down, with all the consequences that these closures will have on the transportation of animals and the spread of epidemics."@en1

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