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"Mr President, Mr Dalli, ladies and gentlemen, I was very surprised by what you said, Mr Dalli. You behaved as if nothing had happened. In July, Parliament took up a very clear position and called on you to impose a moratorium. Since then, nothing has been done. We called for draft legislation to be drawn up and nothing has happened there either. A question which I submitted in May in which we asked how many cloned animals and how many offspring of cloned animals were in the system has made it very clear that you are completely clueless. In your answer, you said that we do not know, we cannot say anything about this and we have no idea. In other words, you do not know what is happening, but you are behaving as if it were possible for us to wait until November when you produce your report. That is not good enough. We have called on you to act and so far you have done nothing.
What Mr Leinen said is not correct. Parliament has spoken out very clearly in favour of a moratorium on the second generation. We cannot now simply deny that. We must make it very clear that this is also a problem, because all the studies show that this technology has simply not been tested sufficiently. No long-term investigations are taking place. It is becoming obvious in the light of what has happened so far that significant breaches of animal welfare legislation, including that of the European Union, are being committed when animals are cloned. The fact that only 15% of the animals survive and are capable of survival is a clear violation of the EU animal welfare directive. Within the EU, we have the precautionary principle and we must take it seriously. As long as there are risks to health and the technology is not fully developed, we must not experiment with it.
The public is clearly opposed to cloning for food production. The people of Europe are not waiting for cloned meat to be produced and neither are the farmers. On the contrary, the public takes a very critical view of all of this and ultimately we must not put the critical awareness of consumers at risk. The public expects much more of us. We are expected to handle this topic with great care and not simply to say that it is a new, innovative technology and we will go ahead and use it. We must take a highly critical approach to new technologies, but I suspect that the Commission is not prepared to do this. As is the case in other areas, the Commission has an unshakeable belief in progress. However, we should be asking: Are we on the right track? Are we acting in the interests of consumers and farmers? I believe that we are not. Therefore, you should look seriously at imposing a moratorium and putting some draft legislation on the table, because this is what we are waiting for. The incident in Scotland highlighted the Commission’s inability to act and demonstrated how little it will actually do in cases of this kind. No action was taken at all.
To go back to the trade issues, we in the European Union have spoken out very clearly against the use of hormones. We have stuck to our position and we can do the same in the case of other matters. This does not involve exposing ourselves to the risk of being forced to accept trade restrictions."@en1
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