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"Mr President, I would like to thank Members for this interesting debate. I shall now continue in Greek.
Mr President, I would like to remind you that today we are called upon to decide or agree on a proposal for a decision that amends the directive, based on the decision of the European Court. I think that everyone agrees on this point, namely that irrespective of the opinions that each one of us has, this is not a suitable moment to discuss the full review of the legislation. As I have assured you before, this will take place within the next year; hopefully before the end of next year.
I believe it is of interest, for you too I hope, that until then we will issue a report regarding the implementation of Directive 2002/2/EC, namely how this directive has been implemented by Member States, a fact that will help both our later discussion on the full review of the legislation.
Of course, today’s discussion demonstrates the high level of interest regarding the improvement of the legislation, considering that there is always room for improvement, and of course Parliament's commitment to observing established procedures. I am certain that Parliament will listen to our proposal by correcting, at this stage, the directive on the labelling of feedingstuffs, based on the Court's decision.
With regard to the amendments, we will circulate a full list with the Commission’s position on each one of the amendments and I hope that this list will be included in the Minutes of this meeting.
Allow me to mention a couple of issues: The lawful ground of Directive 2002/2 is the protection of public health, something that is significantly linked to the safety of feedingstuffs, of course. This was confirmed by the Court’s decision; this is why the Commission cannot accept Amendment 1 which would seriously undermine this principle.
The new article that is recommended by Amendment 4, regarding the notification of the exact percentages in the event of major crises, includes something that has already been integrated in the directive in a very explicit manner. In such cases, the exact percentages will be given; this is why we do not consider it necessary to adopt the amendment that overrules this provision, therefore the Commission cannot accept Amendment 4.
Once again I would like to assure you that this proposal is included in the Commission's programme regarding the simplification and improvement of the legislation. In other words, it has included this legislation regarding the labelling of feedingstuffs in its proposal. I believe that the discussion prior to this corrective decision will be taken into consideration during the formation of the new proposal, however we will, of course, have the opportunity to discuss again at a reasonable time our future proposal regarding the labelling of feedingstuffs, trying, always something that is not easy, I admit to combine consumer protection, improved consumer services with a reduction in the costs incurred by other bodies involved. This is our objective and we believe that through this cooperation we will succeed."@en1
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