Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-25-Speech-4-157"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Syed Kamall2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, in principle, I have no problem with the idea of quality logos. We see quality logos in a number of areas of our life. Just so long as this is not being used as an excuse to override the choices of the consumer. If food does not meet certain size restrictions or aesthetic restrictions, we should not be throwing it away, throwing it onto the heap, as we see happen with 30% of European agricultural produce that is often wasted because it does not meet strict European standards. We should also not be using our quality standards as an excuse to ban imports from farmers in developing countries, throwing those farmers into poverty, and then taking our taxpayers’ money to throw at corrupt governments when the farmers fall into poverty. Surely, rather than quality marks and gestures like this, we should be trusting the market, we should trust the consumers and we should trust the people."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; AFCO (2009-07-20--2011-02-01)3 substitute; INTA (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2013-11-18)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-21--2011-06-07)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2012-02-01)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Syed Kamall (ECR )."1
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