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"Madam President, the Commission is grateful to Parliament for the support received as regards the proposal to facilitate the electronic identification of bovine animals and to simplify voluntary beef labelling. I would like to express particular thanks to the rapporteur, Ms Auconie, for her commitment to this cause. I hope that her dedicated work will pave the way for an agreement to be reached at first reading.
This would be particularly welcome because the proposed new rules amount to an opportunity to enhance growth and competitiveness for many stakeholders. We all recognise that the current system of traceability is effective in terms of consumer protection.
Electronic identification will, however, make the system more accurate and faster. It will improve the tracing of animals and food products for enhanced food safety and better management of disease outbreaks. It will also reduce administrative burdens by simplifying the current procedures. Modern technology is literally just a click away for European farmers, and our duty is to adopt legislation to allow them to embrace and profit from this progress.
As regards voluntary beef labelling, horizontal EU legislation has already been developed. This legislation covers beef in the same way as any other meat. There is, therefore, no need to maintain a specific authorisation procedure for voluntary beef labels. Operators respecting the existing horizontal provisions would, of course, be free to provide additional information on their labels. Any such information should not mislead consumers and should be verifiable by the competent authorities.
We must also keep in mind that current rules on bovine identification and voluntary beef labelling were described as ‘burdens’ imposed on business in the communication from the Commission on the action programme for reducing administrative burdens in the EU. There has been much talk about reducing these burdens, and now we are acting on it.
I thank Parliament for helping us take the right action."@en1
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