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"Mr President, I will keep this very brief in my one and a half minute’s speaking time. I should like first of all to ask the Commission how it intends to publish the plans due to be drawn up by each of the Member States. Have any deadlines been set to enable all Europeans to read all of the plans made by each country, as well as the concrete guidelines that should be laid down everywhere? Exchanging good practices and decisions needs to be encouraged. Finally, in the event of a pandemic, who will have the say on which decisions need to be taken in order to ensure that the combined efforts are focused in the right direction, that is to say focused on prevention? What will the EU’s powers be, and how can we prevent the buck from being passed between the Member States and the EU in the event of a pandemic occurring?
Secondly, the Commission has not seen fit to publish the amount of antivirals currently available in each of the Member States. I do not believe that this lack of transparency is reassuring for people. We need both to know what stocks each of the Member States has and to create a fund of the kind that will enable each of the Member States to have access to as large a stock of antivirals as possible. What do you intend to do in this regard?
Thirdly, we do not have a clear strategy as regards employees and other people who come into direct contact with animals and, in particular, with farms on which birds are bred. It would seem to us to be a requirement to have a specific strategy for these employees and other people.
Next, do you not consider that it would be useful to coordinate the role of the agencies in order to form a kind of group of experts at EU level who would provide reliable scientific information or, at any rate, come up with a consensus of opinion?
Finally, the WHO has just launched an appeal: before we think about a pandemic, let us prevent epizootic disease from spreading! Money is therefore required. Is the European Union ready to give money at international level in order to limit the spread of epizootic disease?"@en1
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