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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like first of all to offer my warmest congratulations to the rapporteur. Obviously I am going to say how urgent we believe it is for this European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control to be set up. This is also apparent from the discussions we have just had this morning and those we had last year at a time when the health threats were severe.
We need to put a system in place that will enable us to respond both effectively and swiftly because, as everyone knows, diseases know no borders. Not to mention that the risks of propagation are all the greater for exchanges between people and movements to the four corners of the globe being increasingly frequent. Finally, the potential threat of bioterrorism means we need to be particularly vigilant.
Having said that, we must not worry the public, but rather prevent risk and put in place every possible means of detection and rapid response. Such an approach therefore requires very close coordination between the Member States and concerted action to pool resources, competences and knowledge. With this European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control we are establishing a Europe of immune defence.
I therefore hope that this Centre will be able to provide objective and easy to understand information about health risks for the public at large and in particular that it will be operational as soon as possible. We must not delay but work to see that it is set up. In this regard, everyone must show a sense of responsibility, at all costs avoiding – and this is perhaps where I differ slightly from the rapporteur – potential conflicts arising from interests associated with national representation, for example. This centre is not in fact intended to replace the national authorities but to help them to network, obviously, with the competent Community agencies like the European Food Safety Authority, the European Drugs Agency and, of course, all the national authorities.
As regards the choice of headquarters, I hope it will be as operational as possible and that we will avoid fruitless arguments. None of this, though, will do any good unless we apply our European research efforts to all these health questions. As we are always saying in this Chamber – my fellow Member Mrs Roth-Behrendt said it just now – we would like the Member States to listen to us at last."@en1
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