Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-02-Speech-2-166"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Food and feed safety2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020702.7.2-166"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-02-Speech-2-1672
lpv:speaker	lp:Guido Sacconi2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2003-03-12)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the line which prevailed in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, thanks, in particular, to the excellent work of our rapporteur, reiterates the need for the particularly rigorous traceability and labelling system proposed by the Commission. The Union’s primary duty is to guarantee maximum security at all the different stages in the production and distribution chain and provide accurate information on the foodstuffs placed on the market. It is then up to the consumer to choose whether or not to buy genetically modified food. However, this freedom of choice presupposes a rigorous, unambiguous labelling system which informs the consumer whether products contain genetically modified organisms, whether they are composed of genetically modified organisms, and also whether they have been derived from GMOs or whether GMOs have been used as processing aids. The European People’s Party’s attempt to repropose in plenary the line already overthrown in the Environment Committee must be firmly rejected. Indeed, just labelling foods or feedingstuffs in which tests have revealed the presence of modified DNA or protein, overthrowing the Commission’s line, would be paving the way for a sort of colonisation of the European agrifoods system. We are not just talking about the potential health risk or the principle of transparency towards consumers: we are also and, perhaps, above all, talking about the safeguarding of conventional and organic food production. This might seem an exaggeration, but tomorrow’s vote is important for European citizens: on the one hand, we can and must do something to banish their feeling of insecurity, and, on the other, we can and must reinforce the ideal of the Europe of diversities, which can do so much to further its quest for unity."@en1

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