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lpv:speaker	lp:John Bowis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, you are very kind. Thank you for those words. It is good to be back for what is my last week in this Parliament – or any parliament. After 25 years of elected politics that is an adequate sufficiency, I think. I just want, on this last occasion, to say that many of us in this House have invested a lot of ourselves in the REACH process: Guido Sacconi and many colleagues have laid the foundations for a safer, better chemicals framework. My message to the next Parliament is, ‘Be vigilant; keep an eye on the process’. Similarly, as Satu Hassi has said, we have a long history on asbestos, and we have a very strong feeling that we need to watch out for that. When I was lying on my hospital bed, having my heart bypass and feeling sorry for myself, I was watching on the television the earthquake in Italy, and that put my problems into perspective. But it also, of course, reminded me in this context that, when you have a disaster like that, asbestos can be released into the atmosphere. Asbestos is very often safe while it is covered. As soon as it breaks out, that is when the dangers occur, and so one of the messages has to be that we need to look at the at-risk areas of our European Union to see where we should be highlighting the risk and monitoring it for the future. Having said that, I would just say thank you to my colleagues for their friendship, their support and their messages in recent weeks. I shall treasure my 10 years in this Parliament, and I shall watch with interest as the next Parliament takes on the projects that perhaps we have been able to start."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "John Bowis,"1 "on behalf of the PPE-DE Group."1
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