Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-16-Speech-2-297"
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"Mr President, I appreciate that a large number of people will benefit enormously from this directive - the lobbyists and those who are entertained by them. But vast numbers of UK suppliers of herbal medicines are small business people, often sole traders, for whom the prospect of having to register products under this directive will be a burden too great to contemplate. The result will inevitably be the decline of the small specialist shopkeeper in favour of the large pharmaceutical companies.
With this proposed directive we are seeing yet another imposition of the Nanny State, creating laws where none currently exist in the UK, for a well-established small market whose consumers are invariably well informed. The proposed amendments will disallow the registration of significant numbers of products currently recognised as traditional herbal medicines, on which many people depend for their wellbeing and in which they have great faith. My party is totally opposed to this legislation, which we see as yet another area in which harmonisation is being imposed to the detriment of the freedom of individuals."@en1
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