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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Ries, while the Commissioner has great ambitions to protect people from passive smoking, it is regrettable that no real sense of urgency is as yet apparent in dealing with obesity.
I would have liked to see more binding proposals in this Green Paper, of the kind that would have made it clear that we are embarking on a legislative process rather than appealing to industry to regulate itself. We have learned from experience in so many other spheres that these are just stalling tactics.
Figures from the WHO, showing that 1.5 billion people around the world are too fat, while 800 million are suffering from hunger, thus making clear not only that the problem is a global one, but also that there is a particular problem within the European Union, where one child in every four is overweight, with 300 000 new cases occurring every year, so it really is more than high time that we took action.
However good the proposals and ideas that the report contains, and which we do of course welcome, we would have liked them to include more obligations, and the Commission to have had the courage to propose banning the use of trans fatty acids in industrially produced foods. We know that trans fatty acids do harm, and I am glad that certain Member States have now summoned up the courage to ban them, but I wish the Commission had shown the same nerve in proposing a similar ban throughout the European Union, and I hope that we will be able to remedy that omission. Something else of value would be a ban on the use of toys as enticements to get children to eat junk food in fast-food restaurants and so on. It must, I think, be reiterated once more, loud and clear – and I am going to end on this point – that we really do have to do more about advertising in order to ensure that obesity and the threat of diabetes in children and young people do not get out of hand."@en1
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