Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-11-Speech-2-039"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-06-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cosmetic products2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20020611.4.2-039"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-11-Speech-2-0402
lpv:speaker	lp:Jonas Sjöstedt2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-03-21--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 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, on this issue, we are completely in agreement with the rapporteur, Mrs Roth-Behrendt, and with the decision taken by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. We believe that animal experiments should be restricted to those areas in which they are of vital importance to human health, for example that of medical products. Obviously, animal experiments must not take place in connection with cosmetic products. We are therefore in favour both of a total ban on such animal experiments and of a marketing ban. It must also be realised that an effective ban of this kind in the EU would have a very beneficial effect on the whole of the world market. It would provide arguments in the global market for completely doing away with animal experiments in this area. It would show that there are alternatives. This issue has been discussed for a long time, indeed for too long. I am amazed at the Commission’s attitude, which must be characterised as antiquated, and at the failure to realise that it is time to take this decision. A genuine decision in favour of a marketing ban would expedite technical developments leading to alternatives. That is in itself something positive. The possibility has been mentioned of a conflict with the WTO. I think the risk was exaggerated earlier on but, if a decision of this kind is challenged in the WTO, it is obviously a battle in which the European Union must engage, and engage in fully, for it would be an important conflict of principle concerning the right to enable animal and human health to take precedence over the free market. That is a right one should of course be prepared to fight for."@en1

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