Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-10-Speech-2-357"
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"Mr President, I must congratulate the rapporteur for producing what, even by general standards of EU documentation, is 19 pages of the most unreadable, bureaucratic gobbledy-gook, all of which comes under the laughable heading of ‘simplification’ of the market in fruit and vegetables! Never in the field of vegetable and fruit cultivation has so much been said to so little purpose. However, I would draw Members’ attention to paragraph 46, which reminds the Commission that imports from third countries do not always provide the levels of safety and quality that the European consumer has grown accustomed to: hence the need to guarantee that third country products meet the same safety and quality requirements as European Union products. Roughly translated that means that non-EU countries can produce their goods cheaper, and this must be stopped at all costs. That is crude protectionism and seeks to preserve the EU fruit and vegetable market as a cocooned environment, controlled by suffocating bureaucracy which outside competition must never be allowed to penetrate.
However, it is regulations that Mrs Herranz García wants, even on pot herbs and parsley! Rhubarb gets a mention as well, but I shall resist the obvious joke, except to say that unlike the EU, the industry does not want to talk rhubarb, it only wants to grow it!
I urge Members to reject this report or, at the very least, require it to be translated from the original bureaucracy into plain language, so that we can all understand."@en1
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"Jeffrey Titford (IND/DEM )."1
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