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"Mr President, I took the initiative regarding this extra debate following the Council decision in November. A number of technical improvements were at the cost of up to six years’ blocking of the issue of protecting our animals. This would mean that, throughout their periods of office, neither Parliament nor the Commission would be given an opportunity to improve the conditions of animals, a state of affairs that is quite unreasonable.
The Council decision departed so completely from the proposal that I even doubted its legality. Mr Kyprianou, I hope you realise your ambition of coming back with density figures and transport times as soon as possible. I also hope that you make use of the Treaty’s articles concerning transport, consumer issues or health as a legal basis so that Parliament can participate through the codecision procedure. We could then together break the Council’s resistance to providing animals with reasonable conditions. Unfortunately, the Council listens more to lobbyists than to opinion.
The maturity of a society is shown by the way in which it treats those who are defenceless. If the rules governing the transport of animals are an indicator of Europe’s maturity, we are unfortunately still barbarians. I invite all ministers to travel, together with myself, between Stockholm and Brussels under the conditions that apply to the transport of animals. They might then understand what they have done.
If we are regarded as 75-kilo sheep, there will be ten of us in an area as large as a double bed. If we are regarded as chickens, we shall see how faeces from those above fall down onto those below. If we are regarded as pigs, we shall, in accordance with the Council decision, be given nothing less than electric shocks if we refuse to move. We shall also be given water only after 14 hours before continuing for another 14 hours. We must also try to ensure that, in accordance with the Council rules, the temperature is kept above five degrees Centigrade during the journey."@en1
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