Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-02-Speech-3-110"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030702.2.3-110"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-07-02-Speech-3-1112
lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Anders gaan arbeiden, leven en vrijen (2002-09-23--2004-01-05)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Over the past fifteen years, meat inspectors in Belgium – people who are not technical engineers but qualified vets – have invested all their energy, all their might, all their resourcefulness in the fight against the illegal use of hormones in cattle farming. This is done in difficult circumstances. They need to resist attempts to bribe them. They are physically intimidated, and some are also affected in their private lives, because attacks have been made on their properties, and even on their lives and that of their relatives. In fact, one vet-inspector, Karel Van Noppen, was killed on 20 February 1995. It is fortunate that the killers and their clients were sentenced for this last year, and that they are now behind bars. These are thus the difficult circumstances under which these courageous officials have the European total ban on the use of hormones enforced. On occasion, the inspectors have also been thwarted in their unremitting labour by flippant statements made by certain scientists who have claimed out loud that the use of those sex hormones was totally harmless to public health. Anyone who reads the Olsson report knows that this is hogwash. In this light, I consider the approval of the Olsson report as a MARK OF HONOUR to all meat inspectors in Europe who carry out sound work and an INCENTIVE to remain permanently vigilant."@en1

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