Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-14-Speech-2-337"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-05-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Foodstuffs2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020514.14.2-337"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-14-Speech-2-3382
lpv:speaker	lp:Nigel Farage2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, though a flabby pinstriped businessman who enjoys shooting driven game, I want to concentrate on the aspect that we have 17 hygiene directives here being deregulated into one. This regulation goes way beyond the directives that it replaces. In particular, it extends Article 3 of Directive 93/43 which introduces what are know as the HACCP principles. The hazard analysis and critical control points were developed in the 1960s for NASA to guarantee high purity food for astronauts. Uncontrolled bodily functions in a space suit can be rather inconvenient! But HACCP is a food safety management system devised for highly sophisticated food-processing operations. This space-age system is to be made compulsory throughout the EU. In the UK alone it is going to effect 300 000 businesses, costing an estimated GBP 2 billion a year for SMEs alone. Something that has been developed for a sophisticated technology-based organisation is not appropriate for Joe's Cafe in Lewisham High Street or Jean Dupont's bistro in the rue de la Révolution in Marseilles. Earlier this year, in the very shadow of this building, I toured the local food markets with a food safety expert. I found dozens of basic food hygiene failings. There, and everywhere else, the basic provisions of Directive 93/43 have yet to be complied with. So why is the Commission creating even more laws? These technocrats are totally out of touch with reality. They have gone into orbit and landed on another planet like the astronauts for which the HACCP system was devised. For this reason alone the Commission should not be putting forward more law. We do not need more complexity. If Parliament endorses it, it proves that it too is living on another planet."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (2001-12-11--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; UK Independence Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Farage (EDD )."1

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