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"Mr President, I think Parliament has done a decent job of work, alongside our colleagues in the Commission, on this package. In the round, this package updates and consolidates around 600 individual instruments of various types of legislation, so I think there is much to admire within the package. In that spirit, I would particularly praise Ms Paulsen for the work she has done in her report, and I would urge colleagues to support Amendment 238, in my name, which is specifically about dealing with the very real problems that we and a lot of Europe’s farmers have had in implementing the rules on the electronic identification of sheep.
This amendment is proportionate and based on facts and I think it is important, as we are updating this body of law, that we take due cognisance of how things are. We studied this quite specifically in Shetland, Scotland’s most northerly islands: 91% of farms have lost tags from various sheep and 87% of sheep have had damaged ears, because of the way this is being implemented. The amendment would allow Member States to introduce a derogation to only electronically tag the beast as it leaves the holding of birth. That would in no way undermine traceability. The derogation would be voluntary for the Member States, it would not undermine traceability and I would urge colleagues very strongly to support it, because it would help us update this legislation in a very productive way for Europe’s farmers."@en1
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