Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-18-Speech-1-094"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, I shall not repeat what my colleague Mrs Hautala has already said. It is clear that my group and I share her point of view. I would simply like to add to what Mrs Berger said.
I feel that the Commission should put forward a proposal to the European Convention to change the Treaty’s existing legal bases in the area of public health. Mrs Berger was right to stress the fact that the working group to the Convention has submitted its conclusions which attracted severe criticism in the Convention’s plenary session. I feel that we absolutely must be able to legislate in the area of public health, as the arguments put forward here regarding subsidiarity do not hold water. On the one hand, the Council and the Community institutions are preserving their powers of appreciation as to whether or not it is appropriate to legislate. On the other hand, if we look at the studies carried out by the World Health Organisation, it is evident that in order for a ban on advertising to be effective, it must be applied thoroughly and comprehensively. The solution to be followed is that of global legislation in this area. We must at least have the means to pass European legislation, without which – and I refer back to the previous debate on media concentration – what will happen is that economic players will play the national legislation card against the others. This argument also puts the case for European legislation."@en1
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