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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Recent serious problems concerning food safety in the EU2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020905.1.4-008"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-05-Speech-4-0092
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Mulder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-02-21--2002-12-17)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, food safety will, without a doubt, be high on the agenda in the coming years. If we consider the recent scandals, the big question is whether the Commission would have been able to prevent them. The Food and Veterinary Office in Dublin has been in existence for a number of years. What kind of inspections does it carry out precisely? How often are they carried out? Is there room for improvement? Would the Commission be able to comment on this? The imports of food, of meat from other countries, have already been mentioned. Does the Food and Veterinary Office in Dublin have sufficient staff to inspect them? I should also like to raise the issue of the Food Safety Authority. Once this is fully up and running, it will need to analyse all the production processes and see whether they can be improved. This Authority will also need to issue recommendations to the Food and Veterinary Office in Dublin about the way in which the inspection procedures can be improved still further. In fact, cooperation with the Member States will also be required. However, the most important thing is for the Office to perform its task of implementing existing legislation well. In the light of increasing liberalisation, we will obviously be facing ever growing imports and, in my view, ever greater risks as a result. Another issue is production in Europe itself. The idea that the entire production chain is to be monitored is increasingly taking root in different countries. This is referred to as ‘integrated production’. Why does the Commission not prescribe any standards in this respect? What exactly is integrated production in a European context? How can we monitor every link in the production chain? There is legislation in Europe governing organic production in which this is laid down. In a slightly different area, there is legislation in Europe which defines precisely what regional products are. Why, therefore, do we not have legislation which identifies what integrated production is by means of a quality mark? Then we would be able to trace everything promptly. Moreover, the European consumer would be able to express a preference for European products from European farmers."@en1

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