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Mr President, first I should like to thank the Members of the European Parliament for the very interesting debate. I have also followed closely the proposals and views expressed. Of course, I cannot comment on all of them in such a short time, but I have taken note of them and I shall of course take very serious account of them.
The fact is that there is a difference when it comes to health between men and women; there is the question of the illnesses which affect both sexes but which are peculiar either in their diagnosis or treatment in women and, of course, there are illnesses which affect women in particular. This is something which needs to be taken into account when policies in the health sector are defined.
Of course, I shall not refer to all the specific illnesses mentioned. What I can say, however, is that our new programme makes special provision and gives us the facility to turn our attention to specific illnesses. Of course, they cannot all be covered, but we shall be able to define the priorities together when the time comes to adopt the programme.
This of course brings me to a basic point which I would like to raise: the need for money, because everything that has been said is all very well and good. It is indeed everything we could wish for but, without the necessary financial resources, it cannot be achieved. This means, first of all, that the Member States will need to earmark part of their budget for this sector and I agree with the report, which encourages the use of the Structural Funds for investment in the health sector; it is a very good proposal and I urge all the Member States, especially the new Member States, to make use of this facility. However, we too at Community level need the financing we have requested if we are to be able to implement the programmes we propose.
I am aware of Parliament's positive stand in this sector and I am depending on its support with the problems which exist as regards the adoption of the financial perspectives for the next budget.
I should also like to say that we need to understand that many issues fall within the competence of the Member States: the provision of medical services, the health systems, all this is the responsibility of the Member States. As I have already said, we shall make use of all the non-legislative means we have at our disposal to promote policy in these sectors. However, the reference made earlier, for example, to the question of breast cancer screening – that it has not yet been implemented in all the Member States – highlights precisely one weakness. I believe that collecting and publishing data and information for the Member States in these sectors will create significant pressure on them to implement precisely these recommendations and the guidelines which they agree with.
To close, I should like to congratulate the rapporteur and Parliament once again on this initiative."@en1
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