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"Madam President, I very warmly welcome Commissioner Hogan’s comments on nutrition labelling and join with others in the House in saying: do please hurry up, we have been waiting long enough for that. People have the right to make choices based on information which presently the drinks industry is not giving them.
But I will focus specifically on Recital B and paragraph 39 of the motion itself, which is a fine motion and I hope colleagues will support it. Recital B specifically says that the competent authorities in the Member States are best prepared to tackle alcohol abuse. In Scotland that is the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament. In paragraph 39 we make specific reference to our plans in Scotland for minimum unit pricing of alcohol. It has been proven to work in Canada. It is a proportionate, evidence-based policy to cut down on problem drinking – specifically problem drinking – presently before the Court of Justice in Luxembourg after the Scotch Whisky Association challenged it.
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but I hope that we can agree here that the first step to tackling a problem is to admit that it exists. Sadly in Scotland we do have too many people who drink excessively. We are serious about tackling that, and minimum unit pricing is an important step within those plans and I do hope there is nothing in EU institutions which will stand in our way."@en1
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